Re: Window managers

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>got a question... does XFce ship as a standard option on any distros 
of
>Linux? why do i ask? well because i have felt the pain of 
GGNNNNNNOOOOOMMEE,

Not that I am aware of, but I'm no distro jockey.  Suse typically 
comes with every package known to man however.

>how it doesn't really move quickly, how? well i first started with 
RH5.2 i
>think it had fvwm or something like that which i installed on my 
celeron 333
>w/32megs o'darling RAM... i ended up loosing RH5.2 and when i got my 
new HDD
>i also attained a copy of RH6.1 i installed thinking "hey now i have 
128megs
>o'darling RAM, Linux should fly like nobody's business" i installed 
the

It should be.

>gnome X-window manager... i was confused because this seemed to be 
extremely
>slooooooooooooooooowwww... perhaps i needed to optimize my system, 
perhaps i

Enlightenment, the default WM for gnome (gnome is not a window 
manager, but a "desktop environment"), is a real cow.  XFCE is gnome 
compliant so you loose no GNOME-functionality by switching to XFCE.

>didn't know how, perhaps i was incorrect in assuming more RAM was 
gonna help
>the comp... anyhow now i've happened upon a 133 which i'd like to 
make into
>a Linux box, it's only got 32megs o'darling RAM (so i'm amusing 
myself by

If you have a network, hook that old box up as an X-terminal, and have 
all the power of your big machine at your fingertips.

>calling it that, oh well) and i'm wanting to have as much RAM 
available for
>the programs as possible and not being eaten up by the GUI... a RAM 
hungry
>GUI is part of the reason i want to escape win9x...

Yep.