fluxbox or XFCE

Louis Brook l.brook at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 11:19:41 UTC 2005


On 27/08/05, albi at scii.nl <albi at scii.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:14:55 +0200
> manou <amimusa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I want to install ubunut with server option because I don't have a
> > computer too powerful to work fine with gnome.
> >
> > Which desktop is lighter fluxbox or XFCE?
> 
> fluxbox (but strictly speaking fluxbox itself is a wm, not a desktop
> environment [Gnome, KDE, xfce4 are DE's])
> 
> > If they are more or less the same, which one is better for you?
> >
> > I prefer XFCE but i don't know if for a Pentium Celeron 550 Mhz with 192
> > MB of RAM is right...
> 
> i think xfce4 should run fine on a machine like that :)
> 
> however, you might want to try some more DE's (desktop env.) and wm's
> (windowmanagers)
> 
> e.g. try the latest enlightenment
> http://livecd.debianitas.net/
> 
> and read what rasterman has to say about enlightenment and speed :
> http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News (section "E17 is being
> optimised")
> 
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XFCE should be alright on that spec. I had it running fine on a 600
MHz Celeron with 128 Mb RAM (Gnome also ran pretty swiftly). If you
stick to light applications you shouldn't experience any major speed
issues.

Regards,
Louis




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