> > > 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.
>
> 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
>
> [
> Picking a simple clean window manager setup
> Turning off the gnome bells and whistles department
> Turning off the imlib cache crap
> ]
The target audience does not know how to do that, or even that it's
possible,
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