KDE, GNOME and older Power Macs

[Longman, Bill]

I don't if you find it reasonable, but not using kde but X alone will
make your machine work much faster.  eg 64 mb will do to
run X & mozilla....


There ya go!! Just run mozilla ALL BY ITSELF. Who needs a stinkin' window
manager? WM's are for wimps! Maybe the acronym should be WMP for Window
Managing Program.

In all seriousness, I have actually done this. Not running Mozilla, but
running XEphem on one of my original PII linux boxes. It only had 32M of
RAM, so it was pretty pathetic. XEphem is a great astronomy program, BTW,
but it tends to be a bit of a hog when you have it doing major calculations.
Give it a try if you have a low RAM budget and a hoggy application. Getting
rid of the WM definitely gives you an improvement in memory footprint.

And harken back to the recent thread about X and XVnc. That's one
application that you wouldn't even notice was running without a window
manager, since that all the client really is - it's a remote window manager,
more or less.

<sneaks away quietly before he gets smacked for bringing up VNC yet again>