On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Margarete Hans wrote: > Woops... I was just planning on installing KDE on my old computer > (486, 40kHz CPU). I guess I'll try something else if there are already > problems running it on a 166...
The problem is not the 166, it is the 16 (Meg of RAM). I'm running KDE on a 486DX2-25 and it works fine... once it gets running. KDE startup is, and some apps (e.g., konquorer in a largish dir) can be, very slow. I wouldn't try it with less than 32M of RAM, and if I had less than the 64M I have I would probably use something else (KDE would run, but it would be too painful to run the 4 or 5 apps I usually have going at the same time). Someone just interested in checking out KDE to see what is there could get by with 24M of RAM. - Bruce
