Re: Lightweight desktops?

At Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:39:11 -0800 A Watcher <stocksami@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I often read that you should pick a lightweight distro for older PCs as
they demand fewer resources. All of the desktops seem to do the same
thing. What is the difference? What extra do you get when you use KDE
instead of a lightweight desktop?

Check out the image at

http://www.deepsoft.com/gollumscreen.png

This is a screen shot of my laptop, running a lightweight 'desktop'.
Just FVWM in MWM compatibity mode with an icon box.



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