From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 6:59:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from host2.hostmatters.com (host2.hostmatters.com [209.239.36.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E99D37B722 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 06:59:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@cahostnet.com) Received: from nhqadmin17 (224host128.redcross.org [162.6.224.128]) by host2.hostmatters.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f2TExlD06378; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:59:47 -0500 Message-ID: <001d01c0b861$87134760$6102a00a@nhqadmin17> From: "Ben" To: "Gerald T. Freymann" , References: <00b201c0b85c$9c261f60$0f01a8c0@phantom> <001501c0b85e$1e714430$6102a00a@nhqadmin17> <00da01c0b860$644f8c80$0f01a8c0@phantom> Subject: Re: Gnome or KDE desktop? Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:04:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 64 Megs should do it but you'll see some slowness, I'll get at least 128. Also the ATI with 2Megs might hurt you a little too. If KDE seems to run slower try Gnome. Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald T. Freymann" To: Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:56 AM Subject: Re: Gnome or KDE desktop? > > From: "Ben" > > Yes you can install both and flip back and fourth. KDE is a memory > > hog but I like it. If you use it make sure you have lots of memory. > > Awh, interesting. It's just a lowly P133 with 64 Megs of RAM and 3 Gigs of > hard drive space, ATI Mach with 2Megs of RAM, SB16, NIC. 64 Megs of RAM > should do it though? > > -Gerry > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message