Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 15:20, andre wrote: >>Within 256 MB i would expect to be able to run every WM which comes with >>Mandrake on it's own vt > > > Bloody hell, you're ambitious. Just running GNOME2 plus one terminal > takes just over 100MB of memory on my laptop, let alone > applications...KDE's probably about the same...then you try and actually > launch some applications, well :)
I have run (on 8.2) KDE2.2, KDE3.0, Gnome1.4 and Gnome 2.0 *and* win98se in win4lin, each on their own VT on a Duron 800/256MB , plus an openoffice on one of those, with almost no swapping. But just KDE3 and OpenOffice.org doesn't do well on 128MB. Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
