My Toshiba has 48 mb RAM (the most available at the time) and a 1.2 GB HD. I know KDE is GUI...what I meant was "how to install xxx GUI and remove KDE". I haven't played enough with Linux to know, since the machine is too slow!! :) I will be installing Linux on a 10 GB drive for my home computer (I am going to use a swap tray for the HD so there will be NO way I screw up my Windows installation...as much as I hate it, I have a lot of valuable info I don't want hosed). So, what I will end up doing is partitioning the 10GB linux drive to have a file server, a mail server and an apache server to play with, and keep the laptop as a workstation to run off the server. /NEWBIE ALERT So, anyone able to point me to a HOW-TO to uninstall KDE and install another GUI? (Like, how the heck to untarball a tarball and un .gz a .gz) /NEWBIE ALERT Thanks, Tim -----Original Message----- From: Jim W [mailto:farli@wiredglobal.com] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 2:15 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Windows manager Just a bit of clarification for you, Tim. KDE is a GUI environment. It is not the smallest or fastest one tho. If your machine is underpowered (i.e. it has a P5-90 or something like that) or has limited memory (less than 16M), KDE will be sluggish. There are other window managers (ICEWM is particularly small and fast) that will allow you to use the Linux box with a less-visible performance hit. It goes without saying, however, that if you run lots of big applications (i.e. Netscape, Gimp, etc.) at the same time, the smaller window manager may not hide the fact that the box is inherently slow and underpowered. Jim the future is now -----Original Message----- From: Tim Weaver To: 'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us' Date: Thursday, March 09, 2000 1:20 PM Subject: Windows manager >Thanks for the info. I'll give it a look. And then figure out how to >change over the GUI environment. Oh well, that's why it's great it installs >in only about 15 minutes now that I have done it a couple of times!! :) > > -----Original Message----- >From: arson smith [mailto:arsonsmith@hotmail.com] >Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 12:47 PM >To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >Subject: RE: Food for thought > >While recompiling the kernal might gain a fraction of >a handfull of extra cpu cycles you most likely will >not knowtice any diffrence in the speed of kde. by >default kde/gnome/other "desktop environments" will >put a lot of strain on a lighter weight system. I >would sugest if you don't have the horse power try a >lighter window manager and don't use a "desktop environment" > >some of my suggestions would be: Window Maker or FVMW >there are many others. I think there was a windowmanagers.org >site that had a list of several. > >have fun > >Bill Warner > > >_______________________________________________ >Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _______________________________________________ Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss