On 8 Aug 00 at 9:56, Steven wrote:
>>Dale Mentzer wrote:
>>>
>>> I am probably going to try an installation on a P75 box
>>> that already has W95 on it. It only has 16 megs now.
>>> Have you had any experience with v4 of the Star Office
>>> suite? TIA.
>>
>>No personal experience, but it is well known that Star
>>Office is a resource hog. Most people say you need a
>>minimum of 64meg RAM to get reasonable performance.
I will probably throw it on there just to be able to say I did and
maybe learn a thing or two.
>>16meg RAM isn't even enough to get good performance
>>from KDE or Gnome. But don't despair. If you avoid
>>the bloat, you can get good GUI performance with your
>>P75. For example, right now I'm using a 486 with
>>16meg RAM and it's running X + icewm + Netscape 3.04
>>very nicely.
I went to the book again and read the system recommendations and the
author says it will run on 16 megs, but not to expect much speed. Is
X + icewm a GUI like KDE, but less boated?
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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and put it back in your pocket.
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