KDE in mac os x

Ed Sutherland yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:52:33 -0400


Chris Kastorff wrote:

>>
>> Does this mean I could boot my G3 iMac, startup X11, dump the Aqua 
>> interface and run my usual cast on Linux characters: Gnome, TB, 
>> Firefox, and PHPmyadmin? Is there a price -- in the way of overloaded 
>> CPU or bloated memory -- for such a solution?
>>
>> Ed
>
>
> It does. I run KDE and Aqua (switchable by Cmd-Opt-A) at the same 
> time, both heavily loaded as compared to most people. You do have to 
> do some .xinitrc hacking to get the clipboard right, but otherwise my 
> system runs great. I do have 768MB of RAM, so that might make a huge 
> difference.

Ouch. I have 384MB of RAM, 151MB free after TB, Firefox and a Terminal 
window are open.

Ed