Re: Just found Matchbox! ...

Cool, 25Mhz eh ? Thats beats the psion at 37hz.

  -- Matthew

on Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:35:05AM +0100, Freya wrote:
> Hello matchbox friends,
> 
>   I've just discovered matchbox! I have an old laptop I rescued from a
> skip. It is held together with pollyfilla and nail varnish and it is
> only a 486-25 with 8mb, but I have confounded everyonees expectations by
> getting the thing to run X-windows (actually I have confounded everyones
> expectations by getting the thing to work at all!) It's actually much
> faster than I expected, I thought applications like Sylpheed would be
> too much for it and while Sylpheed takes a long time to start, once it
> is up and running it is just fine! :)
> 
> Anyway I was running Ice-WM and people kept telling me I should use
> blackbox or fluxbox or something instead, and that ice-wm was full of
> memory leaks etc etc, but I just couldn't get on with these other window
> managers, and despite everyone I met diskliking ice-wm. I actually quite
> liked it. 
> 
> So I was on the dillo mailing list explaing what I didn't like about
> things like blackbox, and saying that I needed my task bar as I didn't
> have much screen space and I just wanted to run all my windows full
> screen and didn't really want overlapping windows and the like as it is
> just silly in 640x480 for the most part, and icewm wasn't that much
> bigger than blackbox for the most part despite what everyone said and it
> worked just how I liked it.
> 
> Well someone came on and said I should look at matchbox, well I was very
> skeptical, but I figures in must have a nice taskbar or something, so I
> went and started reading about it. It was just how I was describing what
> I needed! I was a little shocked not only to find something like
> matchbox, but also that someone was paying attention to all ths stuff I
> was saying, enogh to recommend a wm that I really might like! lol
> 
> Anyway, I started it and it started in seconds, wow, and much lower
> memory usage even than ice-wm lite, which I only just discovered at that
> point! I was already impressed for some reason and I wasn't sure why! :)
> ...
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