On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Barry Pretsell wrote: > > I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a > Cyber Trident 9320 display card (has 1Mb on board). > I have tried fvwm, fvwm2, icewm, and wdm. I have tried mozilla as a > browser and it takes 3-4 minutes to display anything. Of course I could > use lynx, but I really would like to get some graphic browser working. > firstly change yer 'poxy' lext browser to something good like 'links'. There is a debian package for this, it does fames and lots of other nice things. Its also smaller and faster (from what I remember when I used lynx in the past). :)
> can anyone recommend a windows manager/browser which may run faster than > the dog I'm running now. > window manager wise I would recommend uwm (also known as ude too, http://udeproject.sourceforge.net/), although it looks like not much is happening, the CVS folder is usually busy :) It runs well in a small screen area (eg 800x600 or even less) as it doesn't use the regualar window manager icons in the window title bar, instead you get a hexagon-tiled menu of things to do. Its written in pure Xlib, which means that the code is small and very fast, it also has no other package dependies as a result. If not that one then I would use blackbox, nice and fast also, however give ude/uwm a try, you probably won't like it at first but after a day or two you will think its greats. :) As for a web browser, opera is good and with an advert zapper the ads disappear (use junkbuster, on that much memory you won't be using squid with adzap :) ). Konquerer is ment to be good but I don't know as I haven't used it. Alex
