Erylon, Thanks for your response!
Randy Kramer Erylon Hines wrote: > I feel I must disagree with this. IF you run the latest KDE/graphical gui > you need more ram, but 256 on a reasonably up-to-date machine (700+mhz) is > enough for the job. If you run an older, slower machine, and use a smaller > gui such as Xfce, IceWM, etc (I've used Blackbox, but found it a bit too > minimal), a P200 with 128 megs, or even less, will do the job. Choose your > apps carefully--use Opera for web browsing and xwc for file browsing, and you > will do fine. I have an older kernel, 2.1x something and RedHat 6.x on a P90 > with 48 megs and it runs fine--looks a lot like Win3.1, though. > > BTW, I'm typing this on a P233, 284megs, running Xfce, and it is FAST! This > machine is sitting on top of a (overclocked) P733 with 284 megs. Both run > 8.0, and the primary difference is the gui of choice for the 733 is KDE and > the one I'm running on this one is Xfce. I use the "slow" machine most of > the time because I really do prefer Xfce, and I can't see any performance hit > at all, between the two. Both machines have VooDoo 3's.
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