From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 10:15:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B4737B400 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 10:15:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD1143E65 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 10:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g73HFhOQ074964 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:15:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17b2VD-00057K-00 for ; Sat, 03 Aug 2002 12:15:43 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE vs. GNOME || GNOME vs. KDE References: <001c01c23b06$3f9e0b80$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> <20020803173449.A340@fishballoon.dyndns.org> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 03 Aug 2002 12:15:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20020803173449.A340@fishballoon.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <87eldfdfsw.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-08-03T16:34:49Z, Scott Mitchell writes: > KDE & Gnome are both pretty heavyweight -- I'll hazard a guess and say > that anything much less than a 700MHz machine with 256MB of RAM and a > decent graphics adapter won't really be up to the task of running them. I was using a P-II/450 up until a couple of months ago, and only grew tired of it because Nautilus was just unbearable (but cool enough that I wanted to try to us it). I also had 768MB of RAM and a Geforce2, so I'd agree with at least 2/3 of your statement. -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message