Low RAM BSD system. Need windowing system advice

Robert Rouse · 2005-09-14T15:14:45

Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 on old P3 866 mhz systems with 256 megs of RAM. I use them as little servers for a game I'm working on. I want to use a windowing system on them, but Gnome, for instance, leaves me with 60 megs of RAM when it's running. What do you guys suggest I use? I need something that is easy to use and still lightweight. I've looked at Fluxbox and Windowmaker for instance, but I have tried neither. Thanks

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Started by Maega September 04, 2005 06:54 AM

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Will F

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September 14, 2005 03:14 PM

I have a laptop with 64 megs of RAM that I used to use with BlackBox. It ran a little slow, but fine otherwise (the CPU is in the 400mhz range). However, since I only use it as a server I recently reinstalled without X. If you can live without X, I highly recommend it ... but if you insist on a window manager here's a list of X11 Window Managers for FreeBSD