On Tuesday 19 June 2007 6:30 pm, Telly Williams wrote: > How's everyone? > > I'm about to install Debian (with Gnome) on an HP Pavilion 6360 for > my friend's mother. The HP takes a maximum of 256MB's of ram. > Originally I was going to re-install Windows XP for her, but that > doesn't look like a good idea from a SPEED perspective (it was going > incredibly slow when I obtained it from her). > > I wanted to get an opinion from someone on whether or not this will > run well or not for her. I personally think that it will, based on the > documentation I've read about the very old computers that can be used > with Linux, but I wanted to get a second thought. Thanks. ~Telly
Actually, if it is speed that you are looking for, tone-down the eyecandy in KDE and set he up with that. Just makeing the panels non-transparent, disabling their hiding animation, and tool-tip pop-ups, KDE runs fine with only 256MB. In fact, I am running it right now on an 800mhz P3 with 256, using transparent panels while running beagled, gaim, apache2, mysql services. I rarely seem to swap, if ever. -- Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Location: GA, USA Web: http://matthewpoer.freehostia.com GnuPG Public Key: 4DD0A9A6 Keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net
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