Subject: Re: 8500/150 and YDL
From: philippe tapon (philippe@ufoh.com)
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 20:42:31 MST
Adrian Madrid wrote:
> * 3rd, what window managers/enviroments are available
> (kde, gnome, wm, e, sawfish, etc.)? Games?
there's a tiny one at http://www.xfce.org. Unlike almost every window
manager since Mac OS 0.97 came out, this one has dispensed with the
desktop metaphor--icons outside the file manager refer to processes, not
files. You may or may not like this. The latest version is small,
compiled easily, and is very stable. The RAM footprint is sometimes
under 5 MB, a very good figure if you want to run say Mac-On-Linux,
which can chew up lots of memory. KDE 2 is the most ballyhooed window
manager out there right now, and it's certainly attractive, but it's
relatively big and crashes a lot, I hear.
> * 4th, I got a Personal Laserwriter 300 with the
> machine. In OS 9 it was darn slow to print a single
> page. Does it get any faster in YDL? It looked like
> the worst part was creating the image file in the OS,
> after that the printer was allright.
Probably it will get backgrounded more quickly. And it may be faster.
I have a feeling your Laserwriter can handle PostScript, which means you
may be in luck; Linux likes PostScript.
philippe
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