Re: [ALUG] gdm, xdm, kdm, wdm

Peter Alcibiades <palcibiades-first@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Is it my imagination, or do older slower machines with little memory run a lot faster when using wdm or xdm than when running gdm or kdm? [...]

Yes. wdm and xdm use few external libraries, whereas gdm and kdm probably load most of their respective desktop libraries. I've also heard of slim, which I've not tried yet. Has anyone? Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op. Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/