[geeks] UNIX-like OS for a laptop

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 06:48:29 CDT 2007


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> The smallest usable desktop is XFCE.
> 
> However, if you can save a ton of memory and cycles by not running one at
> all, and just using one of the leaner window managers.

Even on fast machines, I still usually only use ctwm.  I don't really 
see any point spending all those cycles to run KDE or Gnome.

On AIX, I run CDE *sometimes*.

Peace...  Sridhar



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