Re: Window manager/desktop environment that's not RAM-intensive

To: Robert Waldner <waldner@waldner.priv.at>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Window manager/desktop environment that's not RAM-intensive
From: Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:39:22 -0500
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Robert Waldner wrote:

Hi!

I'm currently converting the SOs laptop to Debian. Problem is that
it's rather underpowered in terms of RAM - 128 MB and no chance ofupgrading.


WMaker uses ~4MB of RAM, less than emacs under X.
Very fast, lean, and with a nice number of features.

Technically it is not a real Integrated Desktop Environment like KDE andGnome, but I'm personally not suffering from the difference.

I guess I can't double click on some file and have it launch someapplication but that kind of integration, at least under Windows, seemsto have introduced a lot of bugs and security problems. But it'sprobable that my household of users is an exception to the demographicsof the common user.

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