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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
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Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?)
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On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Alex wrote:

> <plug>
> Speaking of an out of box experience, KDE works quite nicely.  It's kinda
> a CDE/Motif meets Win95 type thing, with a bunch of little applets for

I'm not too enthusiastic about the implementation, at this stage
at least.  The basic required processes suck up unreasonable
amounts of RAM and my X server bloats to almost twice the size I
usually see it at.  In the end, my 64MB machine feels like it has
about 32MB.  I think it would be nearly intolerable on a 32MB or
less machine.  Not so good for the out-of-box-experience.

-john