Guys, which windows manager do you guys reccommend for stability and overall performance. Iheard Enlightenment and Blackbox were ok. What do you guys think ?

Another reason I want to change managers is because everything seems to crash once in while and the fact that linux is running slower then winxp.

I am using
Classic Athlon 550
384 MB PC-133
IBM 60GXP -40GIG

What can be wrong, is red hat 7.2 not compatible is amd athlons ?

Please guys.

Hi,

Personally, I like xFce, small, light, and fast. E is good too. I never could get into blackbox. Just a bit too minimal for me I guess.

I've been using icewm for a couple of weeks now myself, light & quick but I don't quite have the configuration really dialed in yet. Too much junk in my menus, that I just haven't gotten around to tracking down...

<edit>append mem=nopentium to your bootloader. That should cure your crashes. As far as speed, kde is a little heavy but it should still run circles around XP on that machine I would think.</edit>

Any of those really are pretty darn good. BlackBox is fast, xfce is quick and minimal with easier menu editing etc...I use a version of BlackBox called FluxBox that is just dandy in my mind. It uses tabs to keep track of windows, a bit more options/functionality than BB, so i use it. It'll come down to preference though. WindowMaker is fast too. Anything other than Gnome or KDE is gonna be quicker.

I started using this recently and really enjoy it. Fluxbox is also nice.

Both are very fast and light.

later
eric

I'm using Grub right now, so where exactely does that line go. Here is my grub.conf



# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,5)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda5 hdc=ide-scsi
title DOS
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

[snip]

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda5 hdc=ide-scsi mem=nopentium

Right there ought to do it.

Personally like Fluxbox, but ever since kde3 came out im switched right back over since there's so many speed improvements throughout.