gnome or kde

[jludwig]

On Friday 06 May 2005 04:42 pm, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:40:23PM -0700, Charles Li wrote:
> > Which is better for slow machine?
>
> Basically, "neither". You're really askin' for a religious flame war here,
> but both KDE and GNOME are very full-featured and complicated desktop
> environments. For an older/slower machine, I'd suggest something more
> bare-bones instead. XFCE, or just plain Window Maker or Fluxbox.
>
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I agree on all points. Also an old box - -  what flavor??

I run a 800 Mhz Athlon with 512 MB using KDE quite comfortabally.
A 300 Mhz and 128MB might be another issue.
-- 
John H Ludwig

Common sense is so rare, why do they call it common!!!