Marcelus G. Zalotti wrote:
Depends on how old :) I like KDE just fine on my 500mhz Celeron, but a stock 66mhz 6100 would be pretty slow at it I bet. With the G3 upgrade, it'll be something you'll just have to try out. Of course, I'm the guy who likes Mac OS 8.1 on a Powerbook Duo with a 25mhz 68030 with 16 megs of RAM, so I may not be the best one to comment on speed sense :)Well,
It seems like KDE3 is pretty fine, but... it runs fine in older computers? It's still a Windows-GUI clone or does this version got more "personality"?
I'm asking these questions because I would like to install Linux on my
Old-World NuBus 6100/66MHz PowerMac (72MB RAM, 9.1GB HD, Sonnet G3 upgrade
card), but I'm still doubtful about some aspects of recent Linux distros...
As for the cloniness of it, you can make it essentially indistinguishable from Windows without much work, but you can also make it very much like Mac OS X or Classic Mac OS. It's all very configurable. It comes with some presets that resemble various OSes and it is definitely more Windowsy than anything else, but not constrainingly so IMHO.
I've recently tried IceWM on a lower end box and was very pleased with the performance. It provides a nice subset of KDE features without the bloat. Since my main desktop is an Athlon XP 3000+ with a gig of RAM, a hundred megs or so devoted to the desktop environment is perfectly acceptable. Since that won't work on a less beefy system, KDE might not be a good choice for you without a RAM upgrade. I've run even IceWM and Firefox on a box with 32 megs, so it doesn't take much :)
Depending on your wanted feature set and patience, you might start with Blackbox and/or Fluxbox and move on up through FVWM, Windowmaker, AfterStep, IceWM, etc. Blackbox makes even a 40mhz Quadra useable in X :)
Byron mentioned http://www.xwinman.org/ in one of his replies, it's a good collection of info.
Scott Holder
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