On Tuesday 23 May 2006 02:05 pm, Matthew Stringer wrote:
On a desktop system with KDE/Gnome you want at least 512MB and a 1.4GHz CPU otherwise you're really restricting the capabilities of the OS and the experience isn't pleasent.
I am running Linux and KDE on a 500 MHz AMD with 384 MB RAM. It runs great, very responsively, and it is very pleasant with one exception: mplayer drops frames. It does better on the DVDs if I switch to IceWM. It is quite watchable, but if you look closely you can see it is still dropping a few frames. So I use KDE 98% of the time, and when I want to play a DVD I temporarily switch to IceWM. Bryan *************************************** Powered by Mepis Linux 3.4-3 KDE 3.5.2 KMail 1.8.3 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************