KDE, GNOME and older Power Macs

Leonard Blaisdell leo at greatbasin.com
Mon Oct 18 21:20:20 MDT 2004


>I can only speak about the 7200, but I ran the previous version of 
>YDL on it some time ago with 64 Mb of RAM and it was extremely slow. 
>Too slow to be considered a viable machine in my book.  YMMV.
>
>Just a message from Doug...

I'll speak a bit. I have a 200Mhz 604e 9600 with 128 MB of RAM. 
Neither KDE or Gnome comes close to working comfortably on my 
machine. I use ICEwm. There are plenty of other low requirement 
window managers besides ICE.  KDE and Gnome aren't.

leo




More information about the yellowdog-general mailing list