KDE, GNOME and older Power Macs

[David Wadson]

On Monday, October 18, 2004, at 11:20  PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

>> 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

Thanks for the tip, Leo. My knowledge of X is limited so I wouldn't 
have looked beyond KDE and Gnome. Looks like I'll be exploring 
different window managers.

Dave