[parisc-linux] Opinions on desktop environments

[alaskan@telusplanet.net]

On 07 Sep 2002 02:43:28 +0100, you wrote:

>On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 01:58, Derek Engelhaupt wrote:
>> Well, got KDE to work, but it just seems slow even with my 16MB of RAM
>> and 2GB of swap on my C180.  I guess my questions would be what would
>> be an alternative that might run faster and/or be better overall than
>> KDE?  Gnome?  I guess I'm looking for what you guys think is the best
>> desktop environment to run.  Thanks.
>
>17Mb is pushing it. KDE/GNOME are about the same size. xfce/rox need a
>lot less
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Nothing like applying a little hardware to cure speed demons.

I would suggest more memory, at least 32MB and even 64MB and or a
faster hard disk drive (: 10k rpm :) the latter has sped my 712/60 to
twice the normal performance when using a GUI.