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Re: [LUG] Old PCs



try the following

1. xfce - http://www.xfce.org/ ( very OS/2 warp looking.)
2. fvwm (95) http://www.fvwm.org/

Here's a link that may help

http://www.pconline.com/~erc/xwm.htm

David
On Monday 14 April 2003 19:09, Mark Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:11:59AM +0100, Julian Hall wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm also interested in running Linux on a low spec PC.. 486 laptop /w
> > 16Mb RAM is the lowest spec.  A lot of people have said "Linux runs
> > happily on low spec PCs" but what I am now coming to realise is they
> > meant "Linux runs happily in COMMAND LINE on low spec PCs".
> >
> > Could anyone suggest the best (smallest) Window Manager to run, say
> > Vector or Peanut Linux using XFree? KDE seems a tad overkill and Gnome
> > is not a whole heck of a lot better :)
>
> You could try blackbox or fvwm. If you are really brave you
> could try twm. N.B. even a lightweight window manager won't
> help much if you intend running Mozilla or Openoffice.org


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