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* An ongoing debate between Cousin Stanley and All rages on ...

| CS> || I run Mandrake-Linux + KDE desktop
| CS> || on a Pentium-I MMX 233MHz w/ 128MB RAM
| CS> || and it's just a tad slow for my taste, but definitely doable. :-)
| CS> | You can (and should) use a small window manager.
| CS> | BlackBox or XFCE would run OK on this machine you have.
| CS> After the initial KDE start-up, everything seems to open
| CS> fairly quickly and run well, .e.g. , no problems ....

My experience exactly. I usually start x loading then go for coffee <g>
after that it's tolerable ...

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: Ben aka cMech http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/m/cmech617/
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