For some reason I would like to say XFCE rocks.

[Ken Moffat]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>Quoth James McDonald:
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>>Um,
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>>I have been trying to lighten the load on my PIII 600MHz w/ 512MB RAM.
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>>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.
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>I'm so pleased to be able to say "I told you so." Except, of course,
>that I *didn't* told you so, but would have if you'd asked me. XFCE
>3 does indeed blaze over against GNOME and KDE. For my money, the
>lost feechurs and eye canddy are a fair trade for better performance.
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>Just my opinion, natcherly, worth whatcha paid for it.
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>Kurt
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Xfce4 rc2 is pretty fabulous. They have a script that downloads, 
compiles and installs is for you.