From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LPMEM-0004GQ-0A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:25:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17B44E0732; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:25:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0001E0732 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:25:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13302646DF for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:25:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.321 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.321 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.211, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sSnphMZDOihV for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:25:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA5A646D0 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:25:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LPMDf-0003nV-7I for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:25:03 +0000 Received: from 64.251.14.41 ([64.251.14.41]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:25:03 +0000 Received: from grante by 64.251.14.41 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:25:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:23:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <200901201827.59144.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <58965d8a0901200937w79cd1f82m510024b89762fe47@mail.gmail.com> <200901201856.25208.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <5cf51b790901201000p680774fem7549bc9c493940c0@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.251.14.41 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 57212732-b9fc-4b8a-ac10-862e3524fa3b X-Archives-Hash: 6b7fdece7999c92ebacdb5a6661e1d3c On 2009-01-20, s3b4sm4gr1 wrote: > You should consider using LXDE as DE, which is designed for low memory and > CPU usage... I'll take alook at LXDE. I use XFCE on all my other machines, so I was hoping to get by with in on this machine (which is primarily for use by somebody else). > I'm currently using it on a Celeron Coppermine @ 600Mhz with > 256 of PC133 RAM and it goes fine, among with abiword, > gnumeric and claws-mail for the office work, consonance for > music playing, I'll have to take a look at consonance as well. I generally just use mplayer running in a small terminal window, but that's probably not going to pass muster for anybody else. > and pidgin and conspire for Instant Messaging... -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I don't understand at the HUMOUR of the THREE visi.com STOOGES!!