More mileage from an ancient machine

[Liam Proven]

On 05/07/07, Cybe R. Wizard <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
> "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>  said:
> > [2] you might get better performance from a lighter-weight distro.
>
> Or just a lighter WM.  Open box, fluxbox, IceWM, or such.
>
> Cybe R. Wizard -likes IceWM

A lighter WM doesn't help much if you're still running heavyweight
apps like Firefox, OpenOffice and so on. Secondly, if you use GNOME or
KDE apps under a different WM, you still need to bring in hundreds of
meg of supporting libraries.

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