>
> > > In fact people with 16 Megs boxes will be unahappy. Even with 32 megs
> > > Gnome/kde are not so great when yoyu are using 6.2 beta.
> >
> > My daughter's using gnome on RHL 6.0 on a P133, 32 Mb and that's not
> > flash. Esp when she starts SO.
>
> If you use a sensible configuration then both gnome and kde are usable in
> 16Mb and fine in 32Mb. Star Orifice likes a couple of gig it seems but thats
> a separate problem.
>
With 32 Mb Star O{ffi,rifi}ce will be awful whatever you are using
because it by itself requires about that. Add X, the kernel, the
daemons, the window manager and the box will be asking for mercy.
> I used both for a long time on a 20Mb 486SX palmtop. Neither was exactly
> rocket propelled but both were quite usable after a little configuration
> violence
>
On a 486 _S_X? The scalable fonts must have been painful for a CPU
without math coprocessor. It took over 1 minute in a 386DX 40 to
parse them when X started.
Also I saw KDE on a 486DX I think don't remeber if 33 or 66 and it was
vey slow, not a memory problem but sheer lack of horsepower. This was
the KDE shipped on Caldera 2.2.
> [
> Picking a simple clean window manager setup
> Turning off the gnome bells and whistles department
> Turning off the imlib cache crap
> ]
>
Using 16 bpp instead of 24 or 32. Avoiding the SVGA server if you
have the choice.
All of this is nice but many people have to live with problems while
they learn and this will take months. Choosing sensible defaults
according to memory and horsepower should be done by the installation.
--
Jean Francois Martinez
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org
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