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[BEN RITCHEY]

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* An ongoing debate between Jafar and All rages on ...
| J> I have a Gentoo installed PII 366 laptop with 128Mb RAM that happily
| J> runs the Gnome desktop. If you are using a distribution that is more
| J> demanding on resources like Mandrake or Suse, you would be better off
| J> running fluxbox or windowmaker as a GUI if you only have 128mb.

I run Mandrake-Linux + KDE desktop on a Pentium-I MMX 233MHz w/ 128MB RAM
and it's just a tad slow for my taste, but definitely doable.

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[Bebop & Rocksteady]

I run Mandrake-Linux + KDE desktop on a Pentium-I MMX 233MHz w/ 128MB RAM
and it's just a tad slow for my taste, but definitely doable.

I got Mandrake 9.2 happy running on PII 200 with only 64Mb RAM and 4gB hdd
WAS ONLY SLOW WHEN i MULTI TASKED... BUT STILL AS YOU SAY DO-ABLE

Opps sorry caps lock key...

 

[Mike Andrade]

I got Mandrake 9.2 happy running on PII 200 with only 64Mb RAM and
4gB hdd WAS ONLY SLOW WHEN i MULTI TASKED... BUT STILL AS YOU SAY
DO-ABLE

Opps sorry caps lock key...

Mandrake isn't slow...KDE and Gnome are slow. Use a decent wm that
doesn't suck the life out of memory.

 

[Chaos Master]

Quoting BEN RITCHEY [[email protected]], that posted to
alt.comp.freeware on Wed, 28 Oct 2004 07:08:46 under article

I run Mandrake-Linux + KDE desktop on a Pentium-I MMX 233MHz w/ 128MB RAM
and it's just a tad slow for my taste, but definitely doable.

You can (and should) use a small window manager.
BlackBox or XFCE would run OK on this machine you have.

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[Cousin Stanley]

|| I run Mandrake-Linux + KDE desktop
|| on a Pentium-I MMX 233MHz w/ 128MB RAM
|| and it's just a tad slow for my taste, but definitely doable.

| You can (and should) use a small window manager.
|
| BlackBox or XFCE would run OK on this machine you have.

The machine I use is a 5.5 year-old Compaq Presario
with 192 MB of memory ....

Using Debian GNU/Linux, only the initial KDE start-up sequence
is a bit slow, but still acceptable ....

After the initial KDE start-up, everything seems to open
fairly quickly and run well, .e.g. , no problems ....

Exceptions that do not open quickly are Mozilla-Firefox
and Mozilla-Thunderbird, but these also are slow to load
on the same machine under Win98_SE, but under either OS
after initial load, both run well ....

I also use the XFCE and Fluxbox window managers,
and both of these are much faster at starting up
when switching users relative to the KDE start-up times,
but post start-up, I can't tell much difference
in using applications ....

 

[Cousin Stanley]

|| ....
|| I run Mandrake-Linux + KDE desktop
|| on a Pentium-I MMX 233MHz w/ 128MB RAM
|| ....

| The machine I use is a 5.5 year-old Compaq Presario
| with 192 MB of memory ....
| ....

I forgot to include that this machine runs at 250 MHz ....

Thus, the comparison of Hardware is similar ....

 

[Gnome de Plume]

I run Mandrake-Linux + KDE desktop on a Pentium-I MMX 233MHz w/ 128MB RAM
and it's just a tad slow for my taste, but definitely doable.

i run Damn Small and Slackware 10 on a 500 mhz / 192 meg RAM. it runs
pretty well, but i use a lightweight window manager -- Ion3. i also use
small apps whenever possible, except for Mozilla and gnome-terminal. i
trimmed some of the fat off the stock install via daemon disabling,
eliminating gettys, etc.

i also have Vector 4.0 (slack 9.1 derivative) on a pentium 100 / 64 meg
RAM. it runs ok for now, but i might replace that install with Deli
linux (slack 7.1 derivative).

michael