[ltp] ThinkPad 600E-RedHat 7.3 or 8.0???

[Jon Tabor]

I'm currently using WindowMaker on top of RedHat 7.3 on my trusty 600E with 288MB RAM (2x128MB and 1x32MB onboard).  It flies pretty quick.  Up until the day before yesterday I was using Gnome with the Sawfish window manager, and it was pretty speedy too.  I needed a change, and had recently ditched CDE on my Solaris machine in favor of WindowMaker, so decided to give it a chance on Linux.  

WindowMaker takes a little getting used to, as it doesn't have some of the convenience features of Gnome or KDE.  For instance, adding items to the start menu, while it has a GUI, is a manual process, and many RPMs don't automagically put themselves in, as in Gnome.  But you can't beat the number and quality of dockapps...

As far as modem, sound, and video, I currently have all of them working properly, using information gleaned from this list. Check the archives.

Jon

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:00:39 -0800
Jeff Pummill <JPummill@supind.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> My first post to this mailing list. I purchased a refurbished ThinkPad 600E
> with 128 Megs of ram, 10 gig drive, cd-rom, etc and am anxious to load
> my RedHat software on it as soon as it arrives. Are there any major
> configuration differences between RedHat 7.3 and 8.0 as far as video,
> sound, modem, etc? 
> 
> Also, for performance issues, has anyone tried using XFCE or the old
> reliable FVWM2 desktop environments which take up less resources?
> I certainly have no dillusions of running Quake III or Heavy Gear 2 on this
> machine, but would like reasonably snappy response. Perhaps a kernel
> recompile to eliminate some overhead?
> 
> Any tips, tricks, words of advice, etc would be greatly appreciated...
> 
> Great mailing list by the way. I've only been on two days, but have
> enjoyed the flow of information thus far.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jeff Pummill
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