[Fwd: Re: KDE: What a monster!]

[Akenner]

I've been watching this thread for a while now and have seen some things 
used I haven't even heard of before. What is AHWM?

I personally use a myriad of Window Managers and Desktops on my 
machines. this is m set up:

Main Desktop #1:

AMD Athlon XP 2600+ / 512 MBs RAM / Crappy onboard video and sound cards 
/ 120 GB HD / Dual Boots Open SUSE 11 and Windows XP home edition. I 
keep Windows around mostly for just in case, like for example school 
work requiring crap Office. Open SUSE is used mainly. I use it mainly as 
my active music making desktop to make my music with LMMS, and also 
sometimes for web browsing / Email.
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Main Desktop #2:

Intel Celeron 2.40 GHz / 512 MBs RAM / Crappy on board sound and video / 
80 GB HD with Windows XP for just in case / 160 GB HD for FreeBSD 
7.1-RELEASE which is what I normally have booted. Such as now. Mainly 
used as a machine to learn UNIX, browse the web, and I've allowed it to 
become the main email center. All my accounts are almost finished being 
sent over to it so I can use FreeBSD as my main OS for email as well. 
Just haven't decided on a 3rd email client other than Mutt :)
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Laptop :
Intel Pentium 4 M Processor @ 3.06 GHz / 512 RAM / 32 MB Nvidia card / 
Onboard sound / 30 GB HD / Partition #1 = Windows XP Home so I can play 
Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, UT...You get the 
idea... Partition #2 = Mandriva Linux 2008. Main uses include web 
browsing, music making with LMMS, and other things.
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Old main Desktop / Now my FTP server / Was the first computer I ever bought:

Pentium 3 Processor @ 733 MHz / 384 MBs RAM / Sound Blaster Live! Sound 
Card / Nvidia Riva Video card @16 MBs Video Memory / First HD = 43 GBs 
(Yes, I said 43.... I know it's weird, but on Windows 98 when I used to 
have that installed it said 42.9) ... Anyway, the first drive is my 
/root partition with Slackware Linux 12.0 running a 2.6 Kernel.

Second HD - 160 GBs - Formatted and mounted as /storage for extra 
storage as it is my FTP server. I basically use it as a way of backing 
up everyone on all my machines and then do another back up to CD-Rs and 
a USB HD that is 80 GBs, and a ZIP drive. works great. Video card in the 
machine barely works, so I don't have X on there as it would be useless. 
You can barely display graphics and it looks liek crap, so I just don't 
start up X. Beside, it's a server now, so it doesn't need a GUI.
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Test Machine :
Celeron Processor @ 433 MHz / 192 MBs RAM / 80 GB HD / ATI video card 
with 8 MB video memory / Forgot sound card.... 3 GB Partition = Windows 
98 SE for Magic The Gathering Game tat requires Windows 95 or 98 and 
won't run no NT / 2000 / XP line (The second version of this game was 
released because they realised it didn't work on the NT line).

Partition #2 - Takes up rest of disk space...About 77 GBs. Has FreeBSD 
7.1-RELEASE on it and is almost an exact copy of the installation on 
this machine.
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I use that last machine for a lot:

I've set up an FTP server so I could test how well FreeBSD does as an 
FTP server. I also have a lot of toys to test on it with BSD as well.

I listed the hardware and function because I think it's important to 
show what I'm running and what I use it for before saying what GUI stuff 
I use. On my laptop I use a mix of Enlightenment, Window Maker, and KDE 
and Gnome.

Both of my main desktops run either KDE, Gnome, FVWM2, Enlightenment, or 
Window Maker.

My test machine runs window Maker almost all the time, but sometimes I 
use FVWM2 or even Gnome or Enlightenment. XFCE has seen use as well.

KDE does seem to lag more than the others, and I don't expect it to be 
snappy as I don't with Gnome either. For speed it's hard to beat FVWM2 
or TWM, but for USEABLE speed, I like Window Maker. Enlightenment isn't 
exactly slow either. With Slackware 10.2 and E17 installed on that super 
slow 433 MHx box I was once able to turn on the special effects E17 has 
like snow and fire and ice, and it actually didn't lag much at all. I 
was shocked.

Window Maker has been what I've been using a lot lately though with 
Gnome on the side when I want to use it.
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