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

[Eric Schuele]

On 07/25/2006 15:06, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:
> All,
> 
> Thanks for the pointers. I do want a desktop manager. Is there a
> central site for most/all desktop managers?

Check out:
   http://www.xwinman.org/

> 
> Feel free to offer any more suggestions or reasons for one versus
> another, and I will look into the ones already suggested.
> 
> -Dan
> 
>>>> "Don Wilde" <Don at Silver-Lynx.com> 07/25/06 3:01 PM >>>
> On 7/25/06, Julian Stecklina <der_julian at web.de> wrote:
>> Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 07/25/06 13:06, Richard Arends wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:59:28PM -0400, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI
> wrote:
>>>> Daniel,
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>> Drop Gnome!
>>>>
>>> I was just thinking the same thing!
>>>
>>> There's a lot of other window manglers out there that are more
>>> efficient than gnome.
>> XFCE tries to be light-weight, yet full-featured. If a desktop
> manager
>> is not needed, I would recommend a blackbox-like WM or WindowMaker.
> I
>> also like wmii, but that's a matter of personal taste.
> 
> 
> 
> I have always found that the original FVWM, v 1.24, is the leanest and
> most
> easily configurable WM out there. I've used it on anything from 486SX
> to
> P-4, and it does the job. My only complaint is that the maximize
> buttons
> don't quite work. However, the ease of making menus and things like
> that
> make it really shine in a lot of 'lean machine' apps.
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Regards,
Eric