I think we need to look at reasonable Hardware Expectations, let alone the system requirement, printed in text in both the user guide and commercial box containing a paper user guide and software. With only 32Mg of RAM you would be luck to run Windows 2000, you wont be able to install and run Windows XP, yet you think that both desktops should run on 32Mb of RAM. Software that has been released post the year 1997, cannot be expected to perform and be backwardly compatible. With only 32Mb of RAM, and I take it no RAM on Video Card, just about any O/S is going to trash its VM at the expense of the application/OS calls for disk IO's Time to get at a bare minimum of 2GIG of RAM on a Bare Minimum of a new socketed Intel P4 3.2 HT or better still start at current technology with a X_64 Quad Core 2.8 with 8 GIG and 1GIG Video PCIe. Wanting a PC with only 32Mb of RAM to function and be usable with ANY O/S is just not going to happen - I am sorry. Scott Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Saturday, 2009-08-01 at 11:20 +0200, Peter Czanik wrote:
You already made some highly controversial statements comparing KDE to MS Windows and claiming GNOME is (significantly) more light weight than KDE.
It is a fact that gnome is lighter. No, it isn't. GNOME has a simpler and more consistent UI than KDE, but both XFCE and KDE are faster and lighter on resources. I ran KDE4 on a 400Mhz PPC machine where it was slow, but worked, while GNOME swapped
2009-08-01 01:31 keltezéssel, Carlos E. R. Ãrta: the machine to death.
My machines are slow. I use both. My previous machine had only 32 MiB of ram, and there KDE was noticiably slower, it swapped way more. That was the main reason I started to use Gnome 10 years ago, even though KDE was more complete and had a better finish in SuSE.
The KDE team has done a lot recently to improve this; a good part through optimization of C++ in the compiler. Now KDE is nimbler in resources than it was, but it still feels a bit heavier, at least on modest machines like mine.
Some other time I'll time KDE and Gnome starting.
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