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[der Mouse]

> BTW...if you aggressively avoid eye candy, even X11 can be relatively
> useful on old hardware.

It can indeed.  I've run X on Suns with 16M.  It's a little painful,
but usable.  32M is enough to be fully usable, I find.

This is without bloat.  No KDE, Gnome, GNU Emacs, OpenGL, smoothed
fonts, translucency, Xt, Xinerama, anything - it probably helps that
I've written fairly minimalist versions of enough X clients that
everything on my screen comes from one of my own clients: terminal
emulator, clock, window manager, security front-end, picture
displayer....

It's also X11R6.4 patchlevel 3, not "modern" X.

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