On Monday 11 June 2007 13:09, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 6/11/07, Gayle Lee Fairless <fairless@hiwaay.net> wrote: > > I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM > > Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for > > fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was hoping to consider > > fluxbox or something like it instead of the heavy-duty GNOME or KDE. > > I haven't heard of anything like that. I have used Fluxbox on an old IBM > laptop with a Celeron (Pentium II) and it works fine. > > I suggest installing Fluxbox and trying it. The worst that would happen is > Fluxbox might crash and you might need to restart and then select your > old GUI at the login screen. I really doubt there will be any problems, > though. > > > Cheers, > Kelly I second this. My IBM Thinkpad 600 did not have issues with Fluxbox under Etch or Sarge. -- Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com> Location: GA, USA Web: http://matthewpoer.freehostia.com GnuPG Public Key: 4DD0A9A6 Keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net
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