On Saturday 12 August 2006 19:16, Reg wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 12 August 2006 6:16 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Suse > > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:47:14 +1200 > > >freeBSD can run with gnome, kde or any other desktop or windows manager. > > It does also have a port for Openoffice. By default it comes without any > > of those things, they are all optional in the install process. > > Ok so does this mean that even if I managed to put on this BSD as soon as I > start putting a desktop like KDE or Gnome on it then the computer will run > like a dog ? and thus defeat the whole point of having something that will > run on an older machine ? I ran KDE on a P/II-400 ok for quite a long time. It worked ok for most apps. except OOo which took an age to load, and to load the various components, but once the component was loaded it worked acceptably. I added 256Megs RAM to take the total RAM up to 384Megs. That was what made the performance more than half acceptable.
Remember the old sayings? "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear" and "Don't put new wine in old bottles". They both apply fully to computers. -- CS
