I like GNOME and KDE but these are memory hungry desktops . Multitasking becomes little difficult due to this . Following is output of free while running XMMS and Kmail The values are in MB
total used *free* shared buffers cached Mem: 60 59 1 0 1 29 -/+ buffers/cache: 29 31 Swap: 156 1 155
Notice the drastically low value of free memory. The situation is pretty much the same with GNOME.
Please suggest some lightweight desktop environment which doesn't eat so much memory.
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 16:29, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
Pls suggest some lightweight desktop
blackbox http://blackbox.alug.org/ xfce http://www.xfce.org
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On Wednesday 18 July 2001 16:29, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
Pls suggest some lightweight desktop
blackbox http://blackbox.alug.org/ xfce http://www.xfce.org
Actually, I had downloaded Xfce a few months ago, and frankly found it quite disappointing, as it had a lot of bugs which rendered it barely usable. Don't know if it has improved, though.
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Krishnan wrote:
blackbox http://blackbox.alug.org/ xfce http://www.xfce.org
Actually, I had downloaded Xfce a few months ago, and frankly found it quite disappointing, as it had a lot of bugs which rendered it barely usable. Don't know if it has improved, though.
xfce is a wonderful little piece of software ... I tried it once, but I had gotten addicted to GNOME by then, so skipped the whole thing.
SameerDS.
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On Wednesday 18 July 2001 16:29, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
Pls suggest some lightweight desktop
blackbox http://blackbox.alug.org/ xfce http://www.xfce.org
Actually, I had downloaded Xfce a few months ago, and frankly found it quite disappointing, as it had a lot of bugs which rendered it barely usable. Don't know if it has improved, though.
Krishnan
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On Wednesday 18 July 2001 17:31, Krishnan wrote:
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On Wednesday 18 July 2001 16:29, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
Pls suggest some lightweight desktop
blackbox http://blackbox.alug.org/ xfce http://www.xfce.org
Actually, I had downloaded Xfce a few months ago, and frankly found it quite disappointing, as it had a lot of bugs which rendered it barely usable. Don't know if it has improved, though.
Has improved considerably.
Pls suggest some lightweight desktop
ratpoison (in sourceforge).
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On Thursday 19 July 2001 09:30, you wrote:
Pls suggest some lightweight desktop
ratpoison (in sourceforge).
Pablo.
Ha Ha. That one is LIGHTWEIGHT. It will also make you light fingered.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
total used *free* shared buffers cached Mem: 60 59 1 0 1 29 -/+ buffers/cache: 29 31 Swap: 156 1 155
Add free buffers to free memory to get actual values. Therefore, your free is 32, not 1. This makes sense. The kernel allocates all free memory to buffers and cache, because there's no sense in leaving it unused. If you have 32 MB free memory, then what was the point in buying it? When any program requires memory, it will be allocated from the buffers.
Philip
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On Wednesday 18 July 2001 05:37 pm, Philip S Tellis wrote:
Add free buffers to free memory to get actual values. Therefore, your free is 32, not 1. This makes sense.
Then why my system is using swap file ( 1 MB in this case) if I have 32 megs of free memory ?
You have a lot of processes running, though many of them are not active. They are blocked, waiting for some event to take place. These have been written to swap because they are just wasting real RAM. The real RAM is now free, so is allocated to buffers and cache, which can very likely free up your blocked process faster.
Philip
Hey check out www.linuxda.com Its a company that has linux running palm hardware You can download linux for your Palm IIIx, IIIxe, Palm Vx what I am interested in knowing from the more adventurous ones (those who try the OS) is whether my Palm apps will run on the linux OS Anyway...have fun
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Hey check out www.linuxda.com Its a company that has linux running palm hardware You can download linux for your Palm IIIx, IIIxe, Palm Vx what I am interested in knowing from the more adventurous ones (those who try the OS) is whether my Palm apps will run on the linux OS
Apparently they do run, unchanged under Linux DA. Converting data from old to new isn't yet supported. I'll be installing it on somebody else's Palm soon. Will let you know.
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
Please suggest some lightweight desktop environment which doesn't eat so much memory.
Try using WindowMaker without GNOME/KDE. It gives you eye-candy without consuming too many resources. However, under Redhat atleast, you may not get menu entries for all your apps unless you do a bit of tweaking. Under Debian, this isn't a problem due to Debian's menu-policy.
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