No I did not miss the point - I will slow the conversation down a little for you. You were discussing which desktop was more light weight, Gnome or KDE. As previously mentioned your VM is going to get thrashed, so any testing of either desktop will solely rely on your HDD IO's Speed. The speed will invariably decline with more use of the PC as the Kernel will try to keep as much of past application loaded in cache. In your case the cashed files will probably sit on VM. So with very limited resources the slow-down of either desktop, once loaded will increase exponentially after you open or use any application until its runs out of VM and all cache buffers will get flushed. There is no value in timing either desktop in an environment that is dependant on VM as you cannot make any real comparisons. There are far too many variables and you are not starting with a level playing or test field in the first instance. I mentioned MS because I don't know what O/S your were running prior to Suse, but what ever your were running probably would have been a very ancient version of any MS offering. Yet you expect a brand new version of Suse to run and do what cannot be done with other O/S. It appears that rather that updating very old technology you are searching for an O/S that will buy you more time for your hardware. This is not going to happen for you. Rather than discussing different desktops I think you need to seriously thing about how obsolete your technology is. and you want the impossible from either desktop. Measuring start-up is irrelevant, and any other time/performance indications on each desktop will depend on the speed of you HDD IO's Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Sunday, 2009-08-02 at 21:00 +1000, alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au wrote:
With only 32Mg of RAM you would be luck to run Windows 2000, you wont be
Please stop talking about windows.
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.
You missed the point of what I said.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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