Your system is really lacking. You can install and run linux on a simple/old system but not with all the bells and whistles. You can install it on a 386 with 48MB Ram but you certainly couldn't use kde or gnome.
The more "minimal" a system, the more simple a window manager you can use. KDE needs and uses a lot of system resource. Blackbox or windomaker would be viable alternatives that would work well on the system you describe. If you just MUST have kde installed, then first, expect slowness (48 MB ram), it is a huge bunch of interconnected parts and apps - an environment, not just a window manager. Same goes for Gnome. Both are for more capable modern systems. There are simpler and smaller alternatives that would make your system fully useable. Generally, the older systems are useful with linux for certain jobs - servers or routers - which requires a minimal linux install. For these sorts of applications, a single floppy or even 2 floppies would suffice to install a fully workable linux install. For general desktop use, you need a bit more particularly for kde or gnome. Also, as mentioned below, don't use a journalling filesystem. Go straight ext2 to free up more system, though this will mostly affect harddrive space more than RAM, I believe. On Thursday 04 October 2001 06:38 am, you wrote: > On Thursday 04 October 2001 02:32 am, Orkunt Sabuncu wrote: > > Last night I tried to install LM 8.1. But it is lik nightmare. Firstly I > > have to say that my system is really old and I know LM with KDE cannot > > live in a system with a conf. of 200MMX, 48MB Ram and 96MB Swap. But i > > found this statement is no good for linux because I am running Win2000 > > Pro in this system without any problems and really fast. I do not want > > to start a debate of win and linux on old machines but in the light of > > this fact (being able to use win2000 happily) not able to use linux > > makes me crazy. [...] > I can't say from personal experience, but I have been told that any > journalling filesystem (ReiserFS, ext3, jfs, etc.) is a resource hog and > should only be used on machines that can handle the extra load. Install > Mandrake with the standard Linux ext2 filesystem, and you will probably > see an improvement. [...]
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