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  • From: "Anthony J. Albert" <albert AT polaris.umpi.maine.edu>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [BL] Suggestion for BL3: rxvt
  • Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:12:06 -0500

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
"This is only temporary, unless it works."
--- Red Green





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