Sawmill ships with RH6.2 and I think it's the default window manager.
It's been several years since I tried the Amiga Window Manger (amiwin)
on an Alpha, but I do remember it had endian issues that made it
unstable at best.
-----Original Message-----
From: SteveCraft [mailto:scraft@nothinbut.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 2:23 PM
To: axp-list@redhat.com
Subject: RE: GNOME or KDE or Other?
Sawmill?
?
Where to get?
I saw somewhere, someone out there had a full AmigaOS window manager.
That's what I would like to do "in the end". But if Sawmill is the most
stable, I'm interested. I completed the "server install" with no X but
maybe I'll do a re-install of a custom config and make it install gnome and
then manually install sawmill after that. My machine is a UDB with 64mb RAM
and an 1800mb / partition, that's it.
Thanks for the comments!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Champigny, Michael [mailto:Michael.Champigny@compaq.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 10:10 AM
> To: 'axp-list@redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: GNOME or KDE or Other?
>
>
> I've had no problems with stability using KDE and GNOME on different
> boxes. All my machines have sound working and various video hardware,
> and still no instabilities. In any case, I think KDE runs a little
> lighter on Alpha's. Not as much memory use it seems, and faster
> interactivity in X, probably due to the bloated window manager
> (Enlightement) in GNOME. Use sawmill (now sawfish) with RH6.2 instead
> and you'll notice a big improvement in speed.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michal Jaegermann [mailto:michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 1:01 AM
> To: axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: GNOME or KDE or Other?
>
>
> SteveCraft wrote:
> >
> > Finally got my RH6.2 setup going. Now am wondering which is more
> > popular/stable out there in AXP-land - GNOME or K?
>
> Not a clue which one is more popular. KDE is plain broken. It has a
> built-in ability to what it looks like to crash a video hardware (yes,
> this seems to be not an X server but on a lower level). After this will
> happen you will have no keyboard and no mouse although a network
> connection, if exists, still should be good enough to login and reboot
> (you will have hurry before this opportunity will die too).
>
> Removing "Gnome" entry from KDE menus will change the situation from
> "on demand" to "random, with no apparent reason".
>
> NOT using Enlightement window manager with Gnome is a very fine idea. :-)
> I did not try Helix latest stuff yet.
>
> Michal
>
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