On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:25:31PM +0100, Giles Nunn wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Phil Driscoll wrote:
So, the question is:
I'm I wasting my time trying to get KDE2 stuff working on a 32Mb machine, or can anyone point me at some tweaks that will make these machines useful?
IMHO yes. When I was running a workstation with only 32M I discovered icewm. It will even work ok in 16M (probably not with xfree 4, though). I now have 128M but I still use icewm. It is just as usable as KDE, much easier to configure (when you know where to look) and *much* quicker loading. It just leaves out the pretty bits you get with KDE etc.
Star Office is pretty heavy on resources too. It will run in 32M but I wouldn't bother except to prove it. With KDE2 and Star Office together you will certainly need to go to at least 64M and to get good performance I would aim at 128M (RAM is cheap now).
I'd agree with Giles. If you need to run office-type software and a desktop environment then you need more memory. But have you thought of what else you could use them for? I'm thinking X-terminals or for a firewall or DNS or mail or news service. If it's for school kids introduce them to the pleasures of a lightweight window manager (I use blackbox) and apps such as vim, lynx and LaTeX. There are other ways to go which are more rewarding than bloatware IMHO, which don't require state of the art hardware and from which kids would learn a lot. -- Frank *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* | Boroughbridge | Tel: 01423 323019 | PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 | *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/