From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 8 7:36:12 2003 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 608AE37B406 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 07:36:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2B143F93 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 07:36:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: from nkinkade by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18hX1Q-0002De-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 08 Feb 2003 07:36:04 -0800 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 07:36:04 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kde3 on 300mhz / make package Message-ID: <20030208153604.GC2362@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Reply-To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030207225459.31402381.fbsdq@kuyarov.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ALfTUftag+2gvp1h" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030207225459.31402381.fbsdq@kuyarov.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 --ALfTUftag+2gvp1h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:54:59PM -0700, Peter wrote: > Hello, > I have a 300mhz, 128MB Ram pc standing here, and I'm thinking of > installing kde3 on there, does anyone know if that will be an > alright combination or would that be very slow / not worth it? > I have an athlon 1800+, can I just remove my /etc/make.conf > file, and do a "make package" on here to build kde3 and later > install it on the 300mhz pc? As I'm planning to do a make > package for kde 3.1, is that all that's needed to make a package > that could go on > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/x11 ? If so I'd > like to start making some packages on this lazy 1800+. >=20 >=20 > ---Peter--- At a computer recycling/education organization which I work/volunteer at here in Portland, Oregon USA we give out dozens of boxes each month running KDE/icewm, sometimes running on no more than P166/80MB, with a max setup of P233/80MB. The interface is acceptably fast. Launching an application of any size is quite slow. If you don't have any other choice or require KDEs services, then you'll be fine as long as you have a little patience. Nathan --=20 GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc --ALfTUftag+2gvp1h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+RSPjWZYS9EJQoEwRAropAJ9qeH1wxwb6QjVUgTUK5zA379zZMQCgsOua nPTmfptL1r+Ro/X4zZfmwFU= =YBuP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ALfTUftag+2gvp1h-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message