Am Mittwoch, 5. Juli 2006 15:56 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 03:15 am, Micha Feigin wrote: > > 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. > > Don't forget IceWM. It's not only light, but it's good. I use it on > my Athlon 2600XP with 1.5GB Ram, even though I could run the > bloatiest KDE on it.
Luckily, KDE is anything but bloat. KDE provides a lot of functionality and that's why a lot of services are started when you run KDE. But none of those services is a memory hog nor do they use a lot of CPU power. It is not in the least surprising that a window manager is way more lean than KDE because KDE is not a window manager but a full-blown desktop which includes a window manager as one of many components. Now for something on topic: I wrote my diploma thesis in 1998 with LyX 0.10 or 0.12 on a Pentium 90 with 48 MB (IIRC). I'm not sure how relevant this information is because we are now at LyX 1.4. Regards, Ingo
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