Mmh. My laptop has 20 MB of RAM. I don't think that I'll be using it very extensively - it is rather a test to decide if I'm going to install debian on my "main" computer, which by now is also starting to get old (166 with 32 MB of RAM and 3 GB HD - still running windows ( ). Does gnome use as much memory as KDE? Besides, what does KDE give you more than these smaller WMs?
> 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 > >
