Re: Optimizing Fedora Core 3

From: Harold Stevens (wookie_at_aces.localdomain)
Date: 10/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 21:22:51 -0000

In <slrndlksu6.9rg.john@vector.os2.dhs.org> John Thompson:

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> works quite well with xfce as the desktop environment.

I agree; IMO, another decent lightweight manager is twm. I personally find
running KDE or Gnome in anything less that 256 MB RAM an exercise in being
very patient, especially on older Pentiums. 

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