On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Kostas Theofilis <roufianos@mac.com> wrote:
> Linux distros are quite CPU and GPU demanding these days. Not as much
> as Vista, but on par with WinXP. And WinXP (a "lite" .iso) was
> actually faster than Ubuntu on my Eee. Of course it was just a test, I
> hate Windows, so I deleted them after a few hours :-).
Ah, that's because you are using the very resource-hungry Gnome, or
KDE. Try something much lighter, like LXDE... That's a desktop
environment that plays great o my Dell 366mhz PII. And even lighter,
there are the window managers. Icewm is a good one to start with, or
smaller, there's Fluxbox, Openbox, or waay down there, jwm, or tinywm.
If you are very weird, you could try a tiling wm, like awesomewm, or
maybe, a super-minimalist, like sithwm.... it seems like a joke, but
it's real. There are lots of options for window managers and destkop
environments under the X11 environment (and I forgot to mention the
xfce DE)...
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