Which desktop...

[CaptainPinko]

i've got a P100 w/ 32mb what desktop can i use? any? i know gnome and kde want 64mb, maybe an older version of kde or gnome then?

[saithan]

definatley blackbox or fluxbox.
they are way lite on resources and very flexable and fast.

I myself like full gnome and full kde but a lowend machine like yours will be very slow running those as default desktop.

[patman]

Yeah, either of those two will work just fine. I'm using fluxbox on a P166 48MB and can run mozilla and a few other apps without too much strain. I was using KDE 3.0.5 and that was pretty taxing, but it can be run. It's just very slow. If only I hadn't killed my good computer :rolleyes:

[IRQ5]

Wow. Exactly what I've got. P100/32meg - I have an old distro that ran an old KDE fine but just don't much care for KDE. Blackbox, Waimea, and Ratpoison all run great on it and I imagine any wm that wasn't bloated beyond belief would. I did tweak hdparm and of course have a 64 meg swap partition enabled - (something was weird about my installation and it wasn't mounted at first - the old KDE even ran on the bare 32 but was slow as hell). In normal offline use I don't even really dip into the swap partition and I'm not sure the hard drive tweaking made a noticeable increase in reading and writing, either. So, yeah, blackbox, etc., would be fine.

[nrmx]

fluxbox... Light, powerful and simple.

[hop-frog]

I wouldn't recommend an older version of GNOME or KDE. Even 1.0 is slow in 32MB and these are not very good anyway.


A really light-weight KDE-like desktop will be out soon, called EDE (equinox). It is still in beta.

IceWM, XFce, WindowMaker, Blackbox, and ROX are all good choices. Check out http://www.xwinman.org/ for others, but these four are your best bet.

[trilarian]

Enlightenment....takes a little while to get used to, but once you do you can't leave it. A little more overhead than blackbos/fluxbox but not as heavy as gnome/kde.