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["Anthony J. Albert" <albert AT polaris.umpi.maine.edu>]

Dear folks (and especially Stephen),

I'd like to suggest replacement of the "xterm" in BasicLinux, and 
especially with an eye towards BasicLinux3, with "rxvt".
http://www.rxvt.org

I've had very good performance from rxvt, using it on my 386SX-25 IBM 
Thinkpad, [BL1.7] where it is noticably quicker than xterm.  Here's 
some lines from 'top', to show where the difference lies:

SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
1572 1572  1112 S       0  0.0 14.8   0:01 xterm
608  608   468 S       0  0.0  5.7   0:00 bash
1000 1000   720 S       0  0.0  9.4   0:02 rxvt

As you can see from the "SIZE" column, rxvt is only two-thirds as large 
as xterm, while running in memory - with similar reductions in require 
disk storage for the binaries & libraries.

So far, rxvt has been readily configurable from the .Xdefaults file, 
and I haven't had it crash yet.

Hope this helps folks,
Anthony Albert
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Anthony J. Albert                     albert AT umpi.maine.edu
Systems and Software Support Specialist          Postmaster
Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle
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