----- Original Message ----- From: "Ilkka Lindroos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:13 AM Subject: Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop
> On Tuesday 25 November 2003 13:58, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > In this particular case, however, I'm dealing with a Pentium 233 > > MHz with 32 MB of RAM. While I'd love to put Gnome and Nautilus > > on there and call it a day, waiting 10 minutes for the desktop to > > load and another 2 minutes for the file-manager just won't cut it > > I'm afraid. > > I gave my old computer (P200, 32MB) to my brother, who had no > experience with computers. I installed XFCE 3 and he's been very > happy with that. I don't know if XFCE 4 needs more memory, but i > doubt it. XFCE comes with filemanager (very fast) etc. My main desktop is an old PII, 266Mhz and it does very well with KDE and all the goodies. I haven't installed Debian on it, but had good success with Mandrake and SuSE. I DID however, increase memory from 92MB to 384MB. That made a great difference. If you can add more memory beyond the 32MB already in there, you'll notice a big improvement. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
