[geeks] UNIX-like OS for a laptop

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:48:29 -0400
> Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>> The smallest usable desktop is XFCE.
>>>
>>> However, if you can save a ton of memory and cycles by not running one at
>>> all, and just using one of the leaner window managers.
>> Even on fast machines, I still usually only use ctwm.  I don't really 
>> see any point spending all those cycles to run KDE or Gnome.
> 
> It depends on how you use your machine.
> 
> If you use desktop applications, they work better on a DE.

Define "desktop applications".

Peace...  Sridhar