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relyt

10-26-2001, 06:23 PM

Slow means a Pentium 75 with 24 MB of RAM.
IceWM, Blackbox, Window Maker? I'm going for a Gnome/KDE style feel with menus and widgets and stuff for a newbie.

Will Gnome run decently on a computer that slow?

inkedmn

10-26-2001, 06:26 PM

i don't know if X will even run on that. most distros recommend at least 64mb of RAM to run X.

mangeli

10-26-2001, 06:35 PM

X should run, but no matter what it will be slow as anything. I think the only thing you can actually run is BB (blackbox) (no widgets)

s1nn

10-26-2001, 07:18 PM

you might try icewm or maybe xfce something like that but i think blackbox would be your best bet

relyt

10-27-2001, 11:06 PM

I've overclocked and added more RAM.
It is now at 100MHz w/ 48MB of RAM.
Any better? ;)

TheBouleOfFools

10-28-2001, 12:24 AM

I'm fairly certain BB would run, but I've heard that IceWM would be able to run on comps like that, also.

The Whizzard

10-28-2001, 04:14 AM

XFce will work nice. Has just about all you asked for, probably more with minimal memory usage.

alkalinelito

10-28-2001, 01:52 PM

I have a Pentium 200 Mhz with 32 mb , and gnome runs nice

z0mbix

10-29-2001, 05:22 AM

I run blackbox on my Pentium 133 with 32MB RAM and that runs quiet well - ;)

Joeri Sebrechts

10-29-2001, 09:42 AM

I run X with pwm as windowmanager (which is quite the cool wm btw) on a 486 DX4/100 with 20 megs of ram, and it runs fine.

X on it's own will run smooth with 16 megs of ram on a stripped system, but most people exagerate with all the cruft they run in X, like special apps for backgrounds and screensavers, duplicating functionality built-in into X.