:[the] Code Girl: Kick Fat KDE/Gnome to the curb and get thin with Fluxbox
[the] Code Girl: Kick Fat KDE/Gnome to the curb and get thin with Fluxbox Aug 3, 2006, 02 :15 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (6877 reads)
"Think you can't run Linux on an old pc you have laying around because of the bloated KDE/Gnome desktop 'environments'? Luckily there's a great alternative: Fluxbox + pypanel. I’m running it on an old P2 450 Mhz laptop. It's not super speedy, but it's perfect for web browsing, email, etc.
"First off: You DO NOT NEED KDE OR GNOME! They are both nice looking with tons of eye candy, but all that 'wow that looks cool!'-type stuff is sucking up all your ram and some of your CPU cycles. Toss it..."
