On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? wrote: > On 6/09/2001, 21:39:53, Barry Pretsell wrote: > > All, > > > > 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. > > > > can anyone recommend a windows manager/browser which may run faster than > > the dog I'm running now. > > > > I think fvwm2 should be OK for a windows manager. Did you try simply netscape > 4.7x as a browser? Mozilla is slow... If you care about Unicode support > I heard that konqueror has support (is the browser from kde), and you don't > need to run kde windows manager to use konqueror!
One of my laptops is a Thinklpad 755Cs (486 50MHz) with only 20 MB. It's running woody, and the current Netscape (4.77) and IceWM are quite usable. It even copes with Java-rich websites, although I normally have Java turned off for better performance. Netscape is slow to load and it's also slow to load graphics. The latter I think is due to the weird dual-freq display that requires to only use half the video memory (.5 MB) when running X. -- Ignasi.
