On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:15:39PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hi, > > I still think GNOME/KDE (despite their improvements) are a little bit > too fat for older systems w/out much ram... it's certainly not very > groovy on my old 256M laptop. I generally use openbox, but if you're > looking for something similar to gnome/kde maybe you could try out XFCE. > Like GNOME, it uses the Gtk to render widgets. It was a lot more > responsive on the old Sun boxes at school than the other desktop > environments I tried. > > Good luck, > Cameron Matheson
Depends how old. I have KDE on some of my middle-aged notebooks (64MB, 166Mhz) and it runs ok. Though I normally prefer to use fvwm because it doesn't use up as much of the valuable 800x480 display area with task bars etc.. On my older (66Mhz, 32Mb 486) machines they are fine with fvwm but I don't think they would handle KDE/GNOME very comfortably. As far as Gnome vs KDE goes, I don't think there is enough in it to worry about. The results of a comparison today are likely to be different from the results of a comparison after the next round of updates... Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
