From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:16:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:16:46 -0400 Received: from 64-42-29-14.atgi.net ([64.42.29.14]:4109 "HELO mail.clouddancer.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:16:34 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap. In-Reply-To: <9h7ne1$1bn$1@ns1.clouddancer.com> In-Reply-To: <3B3702B5.13554207@idb.hist.no> <01062518025100.01008@starship> <3B3702B5.13554207@idb.hist.no> <9h7ne1$1bn$1@ns1.clouddancer.com> Reply-To: klink@clouddancer.com Message-Id: <20010625161633.37080784D9@mail.clouddancer.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:16:33 -0700 (PDT) From: klink@clouddancer.com (Colonel) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > >Further to that, I followed Alan's lead and installed xfce. My laptop, which >was really suffering under Gnome with 64 meg (much more so under KDE) is >suddenly light on its feet. Not to mention that it built from source in >under 10 minutes and installed with zero 'interesting problems'. > >After another year of optimizing the kernel to handle bloatware better, and >at the same time encouraging the 'big desktop' side of Linux to follow the >lead of these lightweight alternatives[1] we will be looking pretty good. Had you tried fvwm-1.24r (the original) ? It was designed long ago to be lean and fast on the desktop. I know it whips KDE.