[mdlug] Lightweight desktop distribution recommendation

[Michael S. Mikowski]

On Thursday 26 July 2007, Jeff Hanson wrote:
> On 7/26/07, Michael ORourke <mrorourke at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > The hardware is a 900MHz Celeron mini-desktop with 512MB and a 20GB
> > hard drive.
>
> I've installed Xubuntu on K6-2 350MHz systems with 128MB RAM and 6GB
> drives, DeLi and Puppy on a Cyrix 166MHz w/32MB, Ubuntu on HP
> Pavilion 600MHz Celeron 256MB systems.
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This may be obvious, but...

Be careful running kde or gnome apps on a desktop like xfce.  Testing 
has shown that you may actually be better off using the desktop of your 
applications, since you will be pulling in tons of libs anyway.  You 
can actually use more memory with Xfce + konsole + konqueror + amarok 
for example, than kde + konsole + konqueror +amarok.

http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmark.html

Whatever you think about the numbers, the concepts seem solid.

Cheers,

Mike

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Mike
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