Summary of my Arch Experiment until yesterday.
http://mcuee.blogspot.com/2009/04/arch-linux-revisited.html

So I continue with my Arch Experiment. I removed Gnome, tried LXDE
and XFCE, both work fine. Then I tried slim as per your suggestion,
it is fine. But it is not easy to change language sessions as easy
as gdm. So I reinstalled gdm.

Put network dameon in the background does improve the boot speed
by quite a bit (using dhcp here). Thanks for the tip from Solarwind.

LXDE is really very fast. Now the slowest application to start seems
to be Firefox. I have Java based EIoffice which seems to be much
faster than OpenOffice. XFCE is not as fast but seems to offer more
programs. Still I need to carry on the experiment to see if I can
really avoid Gnome and KDE.

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