Re: Need help choosing WM for old machines

[Mark Dalton <mwd@sgi.com>]

> Question from White Horse in Taiwan:
> 
> We just installed RedHat 6.0 on our old Pentium-100s and X Runs SLOW.
> GNOME with Enlightenmnet doesn't cut it in only 16 megs of RAM
> (especially considering that we have onboard VGA which means the Video
> has to share RAM with the Main system)
> 
> So the question is, Which Window Manager can we use that will allow us
> to do these things:
> Run Netscape (composer), and GIMP so that we can create Web Pages.
> 
> What simple file manager would be best? 
> 
> Thanks for you help.

For 16MB the basic tvtwm, cvtwm, etc. Just don't bother with
GNOME or KDE.   Those are basically for 'drag-n-drop'.  Netscape, Gimp,
and most office applications (StarOffice,Applixware) should also run
without problems on a simple window manager.

Mark
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