On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:58, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 11 November 2004 16:48, Chadley Wilson wrote:
Suse 9.1 runs slow on anything under 256 MB ram
Slight correction: KDE runs slow, not SuSE as such. In my experience, using something like Xfce makes the machine very usable even on 128MB or less. Naturally you'd have to be careful not to start any large, memory hogging servers, but Xfce makes a very nice desktop. And in the new 4.2 beta release, there isn't a whole lot missing compared to KDE or gnome, so it's definitely something to look at. I've used it when installing on, erm, lesser systems and been very satisfied. On one system, KDE went into a swapping frenzy whenever I did anything. On that same machine, Xfce ran like lightning.
Blackbox, enlightenment, WindowMaker, AfterStep are others also worth looking at for the same reasons.
Running under 256MB might make things slow on older chips, i.e. celeron, k-6, p-III; but I'm running 9.1 & KDE w/ 128MB on an Athlon@750MHz, and it's downright zippy. The only thing that slows my down is my 5400RPM HD :-P. Cheers, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5), multi-booted with RedHat 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.18; can't get Fedora to work!) and Debian 3.0 (Kernel 2.2.20). "Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software!" "A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp" -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic