knoppix on older laptops - using alternative windows manag?

[guigui]

Hi,

I carry a knoppix cd around to show to all my friends - I really think is fantastic, my sysadmin almost had a heart attack when he thougt I had installed Linux on my machine!

however, I have an old dell laptop (233 mmx, 64mb of ram) and it is just unusable. I know about having a swap file, but I thought that it would be better to use a less resource consuming GUI. Problem is, I don't have the knowledge to tweak knoppix into this... My reasoning is: if a Zaurus runs smoothly Qtopia, my laptop should do too... Am I wrong? Of course, having a knoppix using Qtopia would be ideal for older systems if you still want to have a GUI...

Here are some interesting links:

http://www.linux.org/apps/all/GUI/Window_Managers.html
http://qpe.sourceforge.net/
http://www.small-window-manager.de/
http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net
http://www.plig.org/xwinman/others.html
http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wm2/
http://www.boognish.org.uk/enh/lwm/
http://flwm.sourceforge.net/

[rickenbacherus]

Don't know what Qtopia is but have you simply tried reading the documentation? You can choose from several desktop managers like this:

boot: knoppix desktop=icewm

Of course you're always welcome to suggest it to Klaus or remaster your own version.

[rickenbacherus]

Dude- posting once is sufficient.