Re: Recommendations for Low Resource System



On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:59 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
Can anyone recommend or tell me about what window managers they use on
low resource systems with good results and what word processors they
use in that situation?

I've found the Blackbox window manager with the "minimal" style works
really well on ancient low-memory hardware, including things with only
8-bit displays. I wasn't trying to run much more than a bunch of xterms
& emacs though.

Tim



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