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DA7
11-24-2000, 05:28 PM
how fast will the speed be in a
200mhz pent
13g hd
2mb video
32mb ram

box? as fast as windows or what? when i used to use suse on this comp, it was that fast.
MkIII_Supra
11-24-2000, 05:30 PM
Pretty sluggish if you run KDE2. Use XFCE3 or Blackbox and you will be fine.

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DA7
11-24-2000, 05:35 PM
sluggish as in 100mhz sluggish?
MkIII_Supra
11-24-2000, 06:13 PM
386 4MB RAM like sluggish....

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DA7
11-24-2000, 06:17 PM
what about gnome? and is blackbox as good as gnome?
Antipop
11-24-2000, 06:37 PM
Blackbox is better than Gnome. Heck, almost everything is better than Gnome/KDE.
Darth Mandeep
11-24-2000, 06:40 PM
I have a Pentium 133 with 16 megs of RAM.

Use Blackbox. Read the HD speed tweak NHF.

It runs fast enough for most apps, except giants like StarOffice.
UltraMaroon
11-24-2000, 07:32 PM
It will run fine.

I got a 233MHz and 64MB of RAM and it runs fine...faster than windows


and yes blackbox rules http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif
then again, with 32MB you'd be better off not using X at all http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif
Antipop
11-25-2000, 12:45 AM
With 32MB you can run X! Very well, too! Just don't use any of the bloatware (ie. KDE or Gnome). Blackbox will run very well in that, but if you want even more performance, use PWM. It's /very/ fast and uses almost no memory at all and it's actually useable, unlike some of the other "super minimalist" WMs. I've actually used it on my p3-700 just because of the functionality. The docking thing is extremely useful, more WMs should have that!
bleg26
11-25-2000, 02:21 AM
KDE2 in MDK7.2 gobbles up lots of memory.
Like 80MB worth of memory, then throw in another 8MB for the rest of X, and if you use Nutscrape, 20MB more. Even with my 192MB RAM PIII800 box, it is like running Winblows 98 on a 486 with 32MB RAM.
If you don't believe me about how much RAM KDE2 takes up, run gtop, and look at the memory allocations.

[This message has been edited by bleg26 (edited 25 November 2000).]