Re: Need help choosing WM for old machines

[Michael A Hamblin <michaelh@utdallas.edu>]

On Thu, 27 May 1999, Daniel Glenn wrote:

> 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)

Those machines should be powerful enough to do KDE or GNOME fine.
Particularly with Netscape, I believe you will find that 16Mb of RAM
doesn't cut it no matter how fast the machine is. If you want to run
Netscape at all, upgrade your RAM.

That aside, Blackbox is optimized for speed and then looks, and it runs
very well on 486-66s. But unless you get more RAM, that setup will always
be slow. Netscape is just too much of a hog. I used a 486-120 with 16Mb of
RAM and it was usable with KDE, until I started Netscape. And Netscape
runs poorly on my quad-P166/128Mb... can't wait until Mozilla is released.
The M5 of Mozilla is real nice, if it wasn't alpha code I would use it
for everything. I did an hour of solid heavy web browsing and didn't even
get it to hiccup. Netscape hiccups on every machine I've used it on just
loading a page with a table.

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