On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 02:10:56PM -0400, Thomas Cowdery wrote: ... > What I have to work on is an older (AMD) 233 Mhz machine with 64 MB of memory and a >hard drive with about 2 GB free. I can free up more HD space if I need to. > > Since I need to test apps/applets with GUI interfaces, I am assuming that I must >have X Windows. I'd probably want a desktop environment like KDE or Gnome so I can >easily run Netscape (and/or other browsers). I obviously have to have some version >of Java, but I can even limit myself to v 1.1.x if I have to. I probably won't do >much actual development on this machine - most of the time I'll be testing stuff >developed elsewhere - but I'll probably want the JDK anyway so I have the option to >make changes if I need to.
There's no problem running X, but a box that size will thrash with fat desktops like KDE or Gnome. You might look at Xfce or others of that ilk. They're not full-fledged networked object systems like KDE or Gnome, but they do run reasonably on modest-sized boxes. Of course, Java will then push you over the edge :-). Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
