On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Paco Cruz wrote: > Bruce Sass, > Con fecha martes, 17 de junio de 2003, 19:55:03, escribió: > > BS> It is a matter of patience and bells and whistles. I have KDE 3.1.2 > BS> on a 486-66MHz, once you get passed the startup times and the few > BS> seconds it takes to redraw a screen it is just fine... > BS> - Bruce > > Please, excuse me if this is out of topic, but I am really impressed > with the fact that a 486-66MHz is running both KDE 3.1.2 and LyX (I > think it is wonderful). > > How much RAM are you talking about? I am very, very, very interested > in loading both linux *and* LyX in low specs machines.
64M, 48M should work (don't expect to run more than an app or two though), 32M would probably be a too little (for KDE; fluxbox, uwm, mwm, etc., would be fine). The problem with a machine this old is that designers may have never considered it would have this much memory. e.g., this one seems to have assumed a 16M max 'cause video is limited to 8-bit color once you get over 16M). > I am trying to convert a handful of this kind of PCs (plus P I, II > and Celerons) from W98 to Linux, but have not found a viable solution > due to lack of RAM (they only have 32 Mb). Try a lightweight wm and some utility apps (like tkdesk). You will likely lose some bell/whistle functionality but gain stability and security. Good luck. - Bruce
