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JackBrodus
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 Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 12:16 am Post subject: KDE on a Thinkpad.... |
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I just started emerging kdebase (I'm doing it in segments) on an old IBM Thinkpad (like 266 Mhz). Anyone have any idea how many hours/days it might take?  (btw, should I just cancel it and emerge Gnome instead?)
How about Fluxbox or Enlightenment? |
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steveb
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 12:59 am Post subject: Re: KDE on a Thinkpad.... |
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| JackBrodus wrote: | I just started emerging kdebase (I'm doing it in segments) on an old IBM Thinkpad (like 266 Mhz). Anyone have any idea how many hours/days it might take? (btw, should I just cancel it and emerge Gnome instead?)
How about Fluxbox or Enlightenment? |
pentium 266mhz? this will take you alot of time to get kde finished on that system.
if you can use distcc, then i would suggest you to use it
about the question:kde?gnome?fluxbox?enlightenment?
my answer for that: if you like kde and you don't care about the time need to compile that baby, then stay with kde. if you want quickly an gui and don't care wich one it is, then go with fluxbox or something small as fluxbox (openbox, blackbox, xfce, etc)
cheers
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stgreek
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KDE will stretch the poor Thinkpad to its limits. I'd go with fluxbox or XFCE4. Gnome is a little lighter than KDE but not light enoiugh
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Aurora
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:18 am Post subject: |
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| stgreek wrote: | | KDE will stretch the poor Thinkpad to its limits. I'd go with fluxbox or XFCE4. Gnome is a little lighter than KDE but not light enoiugh |
True.
It took my old 350mhz K6-2 about 2.5 days to compile... KDE should probably take a bit longer (at least I would think so, although I'm not a KDE user).
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Doomwookie
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Takes about 4 days on my 233 MMX tecra, but once it is done compiling it runs ok. Still running a lightweight WM like fluxbox is a lot better if you want good performance.
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F16PilotJumper
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| I remember running KDE 1 on a P100/32MB back in the day. LOL. |
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