GNOME woes on the XO / A modest proposal
Ty
tyf at redhat.com
Mon Oct 13 16:00:53 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 21:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Steven Salevan wrote:
> > GNOME may indeed be more familiar to users, but what use is familiarity
> > if there's no functionality? At least XFCE can run comfortably on the
> > limited resources of the XO, allowing us to focus on the issues that we
> > can indeed address in the limited time we have. What do you guys think?
>
> Have you actually tested Xfce on XO to see if it performs better?
it performs a ton better, i followed these directions:
http://bc.tech.coop/blog/080130.html
more details are here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xfce
i can use gnome without it freezing though also, it is just very slow
and firefox crashes often so far.
Ty
>
> Rahul
>
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