On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:34:18 +0200 Tomasz Łuczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex wrote: > > > > One student who makes her diplom about "Comparing LyX to another Word > > processors", asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. > > > > I run (I tried it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] without success) LyX on slow > > computer, but it was hard to get use it (1.3.3 with linux). > > > > As far, I can remember LyX can run where an X server and KDE can run. > > Is the Ok? > > Is that means that a 200-300MHz P1 or P2 with 16-32MB ram will be enough > > to run LyX? > > On this machine the LaTeX will also run I am sure. > > > > Can some of them confirm it? > LyX with XForms with Fluxbox/Windowmaker instead KDE should run on P1/P2 > with 32MB RAM. > It's been quite a few years since I tried it and lyx, X and linux have grown in abilities and size since then but I used to run everything on a 486. You would need a smartly compile linux, keep X small in terms of modules and run a light window manager (like mentioned, fluxbox/windowmaker will work, probably fvwm also, for the extremist there is also ratpoison and a few others). A pentium should work also. I already ran it on a pentium II laptop that could hardly support win98. KDE and Gnome are a big bloatware (in terms of both memory and cpu requirements) that you don't want to run on a machine with less requirements then needed for win XP. You would probably also want lyx compiled with xforms and not qt. On my machine, lyx-qt + X + fvwm takes together about 45MB although cutting down is probably possible. > regards > Tomasz
