[Rule-list] icewm and browsex in 16M

[hairylarry at deltaboogie.com]

Hi,

Ok this isn't a rule install. I have a 32 meg Pentium 166 with Redhat 
7.2 installed from the redhat CDs. This is PC14. When I test rule I 
run a small seagate hd. Normally it's a 4 gig fujitsu.

I installed browsex. Very easy. Download the .gz and gunzip. Make 
it executable. I'm starting it from my xconsole.

I wasn't too impressed. 

I installed icewm. Two rpms and then I created a .Xclients files 
exactly as documented on their web site.

I was very impressed. Still running 32 meg of ram and all of a sudden 
my desktop was responsive. KDE in 32 meg is very slow. With 
icewm it was great.

Now for the 16 meg part.

I pulled 16 meg out of the machine and came up running 16 meg. 
This is a standard redhat install, installed with 32 meg. Running with 
16 meg.

icewm loaded fast. About ten seconds.

I tried netscape. Netscape preformed competitively with BrowseX in 
32 Meg. It took over a minute to load.

I tried BrowseX. It loaded in 15 seconds. I started surfing.

I got my 19 year old son who mainly runs IE and Netscape to try it. 
He liked the tabbed browsing. He said it was very fast loading 
graphics. He said it was one of the fastest browsers he used.

A pentium 166 with 16 meg ram.

Woot!

Thanks,

Hairy Larry

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