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.