Re: [tlug] Free Linux for Desktop Newbies ?

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Niels Kobschätzki wrote:

>>> That is enough to run, albeit slowly.
>>> Why are you asking? Just run the Kubuntu Live CD.
>>
>> Something went wrong... the install hung after slogging away with slow
>> progress for several hours (maybe the 3GB wasn't enough space?).  I
>> realize that via command line, 200MHz is enough power, but I'd
>> forgotten my own experience with 300MHz and 350MHz machines - which
>> worked, but (with GUI) were painfully slow.  Oh well, at least the
>> evil W has been eradicated from that box.
>>
>> For anyone looking to run GUI, I would say P-III 450MHz is about as
>> low as you want to go in power.
>
> Try XFce or something like that (or an old version of KDE or Gnome) -  
> small windows managers which run on those machines as well...
> you wouldn't run WinXP on those machines as well, would you?


I didn't realize that KDE was so heavy.  Is Gnome fundamentally lighter 
than KDE?  I'll make a note of the lighter approaches and in the 
meantime, I've disconnected that old 200MHz DEC and hooked up a Y7,800 
Fujitsu I bought today at Otto (667MHz P-III, 512MB RAM, 10GB HDD).  I 
like KDE, so I'll try it on the Fujitsu and then - when I get time and 
KVM switching space, I'll hook up the DEC again and see what I can do 
with it.  I'd like to keep the DEC going - just for the history of it if 
nothing else.

Lyle