fluxbox or XFCE

[Steve Tripp]

I have been using enlightenment (e16) on several machines including a
550mhz machine with 256megs or RAM and it runs (in my opinion) quite a
bit quicker and more responsive than when I was using KDE.

On 8/27/05, 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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