On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 04:33, Tech Geek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there some kind of min. system requirements for running GNOME? Are there > any tricks to make the system more responsive? Would adding swap help? Right > now my system does not have any swap partition. There usually are minimum system requirements, gnome's are easily found[1] if you had used a search engine. That said, despite what might be the official minimum, gnome, like kde, are hogs. If it requires, at least, 128MB, you're gonna need more to run apps, so if you want a decent desktop experience i'd go for 512BM at the very least. For the hardware you described i'd use a lightweight window manager - there are many: xfce, fluxbox and windowmaker are a few examples. Heck even for highend i don't use big desktop environments, but that's me. > Anybody's input who has expereince running GNOME on a low end system like > this would be helpful. I don't normally use "low end and "gnome" in the same sentence, sorry. However, you could just install gnome-base or gnome-core or whatever the base packages are, abd build up from there, only installing what you really need. Last time i installed gnome (the virtual package), it took 1GB of hard disk space. Plus it's a nuissance to uninstall. Consider lightweight apps, firefox is growing every day and you can already find alternatives and forks. And yes, for a 128MB desktop a swap partition is always welcome and even if you upgrade your RAM you still have the CPU bottlenecking the system. HTH [1] http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.0/#systemrequirements -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
