[H-GEN] Computing without GUI

[Darrin Mison]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:40:25AM +1000, Frank Brand wrote:
> Just shunning X Windows completely may not necessarily be a great idea
> as:-
I reckon use X but try to use only console apps if there is one
available, usually more reliable anyway IMHO.  Imagine you have a
100mhz CPU and 16meg of ram (or better still downclock it and take
simms out - no don't be silly).

> reasonable thought) but, althgough I suspect that there are some closet
> IE users in the Humbug family, maybe the advocation of this course here
Dem's fightin' words  ;-)

Seriously though I grabbed Mozilla 0.7 a couple of days ago and for 
those of you who havn't tried it recently it's really worth it.
Better than Netscape6. I got the redhat rpms and it might be specific
to them but if you aren't using IPv6 make sure you have 'alias
net-pf-10 off' in  /etc/modules.conf, speeds it up heaps, well in
rh6.2 anyway.

As an aside I put Moz0.7 on my flatmates win98 machine(400mhz 96meg ram)
too. I'm going to wipe it for him soon because it is really suffering
from dll-hell, is really unstable doing anything.  Except ironically it
runs Moz faster than my redhat machine (400mhz 128meg ram).  Go
figure.  (no jabs at rh please)


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Darrin Mison
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