Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop...

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:59:28 -0400
> From: "DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI" <dmagnuszewski at mandtbank.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> All, 
> 
> I'm assuming this is the correct forum for this - correct me if I'm
> wrong...
> 
> I have FreeBSD 6.1 running on an IBM ThinkPad 600e, 64 MB RAM, PII 366
> MHZ. I have Gnome installed, and would like to "trim the fat" to get it
> to run as fast and efficiently as possible. Are there any
> pointers/documents that anyone can point out to me that would help?

I used to run Gnome on my 600E ad it' not hopeless, but I really suggest
a leaner desktop. Gnome is pretty and feature rich, but it's a total
pig for CPU.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634