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[Zane H. Healy]

>  > I'm running fvwm2 (over KDE), gained 200 MEGABYTES FREE MEMORY!,
>  > and sacrificed *nothing* in the way of convenience. Nothing.

>Well, you *are* a geek, remember... You don't need a big DE, newbies do.
>My 73-year-old grandmother is very happy with GNOME.
>Most of what KDE loads probably stands in swap anyways. Still quite big.

This is the part I really hate about Linux distro's.  At work they 
seem to think we want to run either KDE or GNOME, and those are the 
only two options when logging into a system.  Sorry, I want to run 
either MWM (talk about sick and twisted), or a pre-V1 version of 
Afterstep that I was originally running on an RS/6000 350 workstation 
at work 8+ years ago!  As a result I just login under the failsafe 
mode without a window manager and fire up what *I* want.  I did run 
Enlightenment for a few years at work, but since I'm running my Unix 
desktop via VNC these days I prefer a much lighter weight solution.

Last time I loaded a system at home with Linux, I opted for Debian. 
At least with it, it is possible to do an installation without quite 
so much garbage.  Still ever since I moved my Mac to Mac OS X last 
year, I've not had much need for a Linux box at home.

		Zane

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