trying to revive an old pc

Fraide Hache fraide at neuf.fr
Sat Aug 14 09:11:09 UTC 2004


T. Ribbrock wrote:

>  
>
>> <>Once the system is installed disable all non-essential services (run
>> system-config-services). That should greatly improve performance with
>> only 64 MB RAM.
>>

>> <>I'd also recommend not running KDE or GNOME, as both use tons of memory
>> compared to small window managers like fvwm2, blackbox, Window Maker,
>> et al. I'm running MDK 9.1 on a Libretto 110CT laptop (P233MMX, 64MB)
>> and it's quite responsive. I wouldn't dream of running a full desktop
>> environment on it, though.
>
And what about xfce ? Think it's oki, even on a laptop without a lot of 
memory...

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