On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 18:20 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On 4/20/07, Globe Trotter <itsme_410@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > --- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Tim wrote: > > > > > > > > Servers and CLI only users aren't the same thing. > > > > > > If you have a GUI running then I cant really call you a CLI only user. > > > > I am in the middle. I am a CLI user, and I run a window manager. not a DE. > > But I am forced to have gnome on, hence it would benefit if I could get some > > low resource DE such as xfce. xubuntu is really fast, but I am sticking to FC > > for now since i have a good handle on it. Of course, hoping that things will > > change (forlorn hope, maybe). > > > > With due respect, you should offer a spin on a lightweight DE: not necessarily > > XFCE but that has now matured sufficiently to be reasonably comparable with > > gnome. People who use linux either care about efficiency and/or have > > low-resource machines. > > > > Best, > > trotter > > Too late! The developers have newer/shinier hardware than your/my > lowly boxen and have been seduced and succumb to all that glitters. > Give me a break! I'm running FC6+IceWM on a PII/366Mhz Laptop with a 10GB drive and 256MB of memory. You can't really get any lower then that. Don't use GNOME, use black/fluxbox/IceWM*/etc. Don't use gnome-terminal, use Terminal/xterm. Don't use nautilus, use thunar. Don't use OpenOffice, use Abiword. Don't use kdevelop, use gvim. etc. Just because -I'm- using a low-end laptop doesn't mean that Fedora should design itself around my laptop. What is it, Bash-Fedora-Day? - Gilboa * For the record, I'm the IceWM maintainer. :)
