For some reason I would like to say XFCE rocks.

[Ken Moffat]

James McDonald wrote:

> Um,
>
> I have been trying to lighten the load on my PIII 600MHz w/ 512MB RAM.
>
> So for starters I went back from KDM to XDM.
> From kwrite to nedit
> From OpenOffice 1.0.3 to OpenOffice 1.1
> and From Mozilla to Thunderbird and Firebird
> But the best improvement came from moving from KDE to XFCE
> and finally the 2.6test2 kernel doesn't seem to have affected 
> performance at all.
>
> Admittedly some of the minor bells and whistles are gone moving to 
> XFCE but the flexibility is still there to configure it how you want it.
>
> Anyway that is my 2c for today.
>
> James McDonald
>


Have you looked at Xfce4? It's heavier, but nice. It's past beta, in to 
rc2 or something.

Of course, you can still run those kde programs in other wm's, and xfce 
is not the only choice. (good choice, though)

My current distro of choice, Libranet linux, sets IceWM as default when 
installed and allows the option to change at any time to many others; 
Xfce(3), Blackbox, Openbox, Fluxbox, Afterstep, Enlightenment, 
Windowmaker, Fvwm2, Qvwm, Kde and Gnome. These are all entries on the 
start menu, so I usually start with the default icewm and when I get a 
bit restless I switch. As long as I don't start kde or gnome I still 
have the option to switch to any of the others. Kde and Gnome have their 
own menu setup which doesn't include the other wm's.

The problem for many is Libranet is Debian, which for some reason deters 
those who prefer rpm hell. ;-)

-- 
Ken