I don't suppose the fact that the major graphical environments are less than svelte is much of a revelation, but if people are wanting to run them on older hardware, it's presumably useful to know at least roughly what the minimum hardware requirements are. Anyway, here's another data point for the community's consideration.
I recently mentioned wanting additional RAM in my PWS in the context of being able to do larger package builds more efficiently. As it turns out, you really want at least a gigabyte of RAM (maybe more, but 576 MB is clearly inadequate) to run the plasma desktop *and* be able to do almost anything else without the system paging itself to death :-(. I discovered this yesterday while running "apt-get upgrade" in a Konsole window when one of the updated packages ran Gconf-2 as one of the post- installation steps. The system was unresponsive during that part of the installation except for being able to ping it. When Gconf-2 exited, everything returned to normal. --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
