On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Frank Shute 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.
From my experience, 32MB is easily sufficient for a thin-client terminal but not much else these days, if you want to use it as a desktop machine.
Michael