KDE, GNOME and older Power Macs

[Herzig, Harold E. (US SSA)]

IMHO, KDE and GNOME are excessively bloated. You may find fvwm2 useful;
it's lean and mean without all the unnecessary (and wasteful) local
entertainment.

Harold E. Herzig
  BAE SYSTEMS     Information and Electronic Systems Integration, Inc.
Communication, Navigation, Identification and Reconnaissance
harold.herzig at baesystems.com
(973)636-7540
 


-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On
Behalf Of Longman, Bill
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:27 PM
To: 'Yellow Dog Linux General Discussion List '
Subject: RE: KDE, GNOME and older Power Macs


 
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
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