[luau] Swap space for 7.3

Mimpin Halim lucas at rainbows.net
Sat May 25 14:43:00 PDT 2002


On Saturday 25 May 2002 14:35, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
Nope i'm using Pentium III and I;m using GNome. I had this computer for almost 
3 years and never encounter serious problem.

Thanks for your suggestion though. Where can I get this IceWM thingy?

Lucas

> Lucas wrote:
> >RDRAM
>
> Ha! You must have one of the early versions of Pentium 4. Being a
> dedicated AMD fan, I'll keep my mouth shut. But I suspect the thermal
> throttling is causing your P4 to run at half of it stated clock speed.
>
> But the main issue is, I suppose you are running KDE. With "only" 128 M
> memory, you are really asking for trouble.
>
> My suggestion is, if you do not intend to add more Rambus RAMs (no use
> wasting your hard earned $$$--an advice from someone with a very biased
> mind), you should use IceWM as your default window manager. It takes up
> only 4~5 MB of memory. (KDE takes up ~32 or so MB? My knowledge is
> totally out of date. Might have improved since my last check.)
>
> However, IceWM needs to be highly customized in order to be
> user-friendly. Our own George (aka Joe Linux) of Kailua has done an
> extensive work in making IceWM useable. This is an excellent product
> made in Hawaii, and I am very proud to mention it.
>
>
> Wayne
>
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