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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Classmate etc compiles
From:       "Gary L. Greene Jr." <greeneg () tolharadys ! net>
Date:       2007-08-30 2:59:03
Message-ID: 200708292000.01540.greeneg () tolharadys ! net
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On Wednesday 29 August 2007 11:48:37 am Elio Cuevas wrote:
> 2007/8/28, Luciano Montanaro <mikelima@cirulla.net>:
> > > I have the impresion that Linux and KDE are not made for old or lowend
> > > machines. Not with a lot of work anyway. New distros are every day
> >
> > becoming
> >
> > > more and more dificult to install in these machines.
> >
> > Linux is used in very small systems too, so there's no problem there. It
> > may
> > help to tweak the configuration options...
>
> Yes, but it still requires a somewhat powerful system. I guess it's ok
> since Linux itself is very powerful that wasn't designed to run embedded
> and the fact it can probes its flexibility.
>
> And KDE (KDE3, I mean) can already run quite well on not-too recent
>
> > hardware.
> > CPU power is not too important for normal tasks, but more than say 256MiB
> > of
> > RAM is needed to work without too much swapping. With tweaks, you may
> > have a
> > minimal, if swap-happy, system with even less memory than that, if you
> > take
> > care of disabling memory intensive stuff (like, using a solid color as
> > the desktop background). I didn't try KDE4 on older systems yet (unless
> > you consider my desktop an old system: Athlon 2200, 1GB RAM and Radeon
> > 9250), but
> > it should not be much worse... or it could be made to work well, maybe
> > with
> > simpler decorations than Oxygen.
>
> I tried to run KDE3 once in an old system and the experience wasn't very
> nice :-(. It was a few years ago so maybe the situation has improved since.
>
> With a bit of work on KDE components, the situation may improve.
>
> > Luciano
> >
> > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to
> >
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Another thing to remember is that the binaries need special build flags to 
make running them on older hardware bearable. Many distributions do not 
optimize for speed when they build packages.

-- 
Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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