On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:05:51PM -0700, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 05:06:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 20:08, craigw wrote: > > > On Sat May 11, 2002 at 11:57:19PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 23:37, Miroslav Mazurek wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I need som recomendation for some realy small footprint window > > > > > manager (it > > > > > should run on 386/16MB). What's best choice? > > > > > > > > Choose: http://www.plig.org/xwinman/others.html > > > > > > > > blackbox is nice, as is icewm. Personally I always recommend to at least > > > > try Ion http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ (on any machine, 386 or > > > > P4). It needs some getting used to since it's a totally different > > > > approach (and handles multi-window apps like gimp rather badly) but wow, > > > > is it cool. Also a great choice for smaller screens (laptops) > > > > -- > > > I highly recommend blackbox, fluxbox, & icewm. > > > > > > I have never tried ion, but there is another nice, unusual, and > > > extremely lightweight & easily configurable (keybindings & such) window > > > manager called pwm: > > > http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/ > > > For some reason, I had the feeling that pwm had evolved from ion, but > > > when I went to retrieve that link just now, I see it calls ion > > > "A keyboard friendly window manager based on PWM." > > > > Isn't this all rather academic, since Miroslav has a _386_ with > > only SIXTEEN MB RAM? Running X would be folly!! Not only is the > > CPU old and slow, but so is the RAM, HDD, video card, etc. And > > the HDD will tiny!!! > > I used to run X on Slackware Linux on a machine with "only" 16MB and > a 540MB drive, which was split four ways between linux, dos, WinNT > 3, and OS/2. I'd say it should work fine. > > And if it doesn't, he should go grab an old copy of Slackware and > use that, because we *know* it will run on that hardware.
One trick to remember with a small HDD is to NOT let dselect install everything it wants to by default. I did an installation of potato in < 100 MB be unselecting a lot of stuff I didn't need or want on that box (after filling up the drive the first time through). 50 MB or so is probably a realistic minimum (it used to be somewhat less). Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
