[ale] my gui or your gui?

[phrostie]

xfree86 is a very lean Xserver.  there is no fluff.
the fluff that bogs down most people is the choice of window manager.
if you're running gnome or kde, then yes you have fluff.
but this is not the fault of XFree86.

now if you're in need of a lean windowmanager then there is a long list.
some of my favorites are XFce, Afterstep, and Fvwm.  others that seem to be 
popular are Blackbox, Twm, and Windowmaker.  once again there are many others.

my first linux box was a 386/25 with 8 megs of ram(16 meg of swap) and a 
2 meg S3 card.  later i uped it to 12megs of ram.  this was with fvwm/xfree86.

i hope you do not need to run at lower requirements than that.

btw, i understand the download problem.  I live in the sticks and have a very 
slow dialup connection.  i just made the switch to debian from mandrake.
eventhough i had a full set of CDs i had to bring most of the libs up todate 
just ot install the software i wanted.  my wife had concluded that "apt-get" 
was the code name for a girlfriend. :-)


On Monday 14 January 2002 17:48, you wrote:
> um... so theres no free, xfree like products? ... what
> files are required to get xfree up to the point of
> typeing 'startx' and it running? im using debian...
> and wondering how much is fluff and how much is
> needed..... i can run tasksel for the gui but.. it
> downloads a lot of stuff.. and i just dont see why it
> needs all that? maybe im expecting too much from
> xfree?
>
>
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