fluxbox or XFCE

Andrew virgule88 at videotron.ca
Sun Aug 28 18:05:34 UTC 2005


On Sunday 28 August 2005 07:19, Louis Brook wrote:
> 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

XFCE should be fine I used this one for a year or so on a 300Mhz PowerPC 
(320RAM, 6MB Video and 1MB L2 cache) its alright. Fluxbox will 'feel' even 
quicker tho..




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