Re: debian

["M. Kirchhoff" <listless@0ubliette.org>]

Quoting "Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>:

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:21:39PM -0700, John Sunderhaus wrote:
> 
> > But your point is well taken; you can productively run X on an
> > underpowered machine - but I'll bet you aren't happy. 
> 
> I'd bet quite the contrary.  Chances are they use it because they *are*
> happy with it.  I much prefer my Blackbox based X configuration to
> anything else available for Windows, Mac, or Linux.  Why?  Because it's
> what *I* chose.  Not what someone else decided I should use.  Does it
> have all the latest eye candy?  Hell *no*.  That's one of the main
> reasons I use it.  I don't want all that extra overhead (and yes, my
> system has more than enough processor power to spare).  The point is,
> it's all about choice.


Ditto.  My PII-366 ThinkPad with 128MB RAM runs Fluxbox on X like a champ.  So
does my Athlon 1.2Ghz desktop with 768MB RAM; I don't feel the need to run a
bloated desktop environment simply because my hardware can handle it.

M. Kirchhoff