[parisc-linux] Opinions on desktop environments

[Derek Engelhaupt]

whoops...meant to say 1.6GB.....;)

sorry...

--- "B. Douglas Hilton" <bdhilton@charter.net> wrote:
> Derek Engelhaupt wrote:
> > Well, got KDE to work, but it just seems slow even with my 1.6MB 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.
> > 
> > derek
> 
> 
> Hehe... you should try running a 715 or 712! The C-Class machines
> positively
> scream! I agree though, KDE is somewhat sluggish on my C200, but
> really not
> too bad, its usable. I've heard rumors that someday the hppa
> c-library could
> be optimized to run _much_ faster but its still a baby as far as
> linux is
> concerned - I'm just tickled that it even works... I wanted another
> non-x86
> machine (also have a Netwinder), but SGI's are pretty exotic (though
> tempting),
> Alpha's seem super cool but are somewhat expensive and often in bad
> disrepair,
> and Sun machines are either too expensive or too old. The hppa boxes
> provided
> a nice economy and are very much contenders with any of the
> aforementioned
> architectures. In its day a C200 running HP/UX was supposedly able to
> smoke
> a 600MHz Alpha! Obviously there is a lot of optimization still to
> do...
> 
> I started off with a 715/80, got Woody running good on it, played
> with it for
> almost a year, then sold it on Ebay for a small profit (Debian
> sells!) and
> rolled my dough into the C200. I'm rather happy with its performance,
> although it doesn't hold a candle to my super dual pentium-II 450
> monster
> box, still its a cool and useful machine, and very nice for making
> sure
> that your app is portable, compiling your own hppa debs, etc. I don't
> run
> mine 24/7 because it has pretty high power consumption, so the
> Netwinder
> is my little server machine -> http://www.gyrodynamic.net
> 
> Well, I sent you a private email with my suggestions about E, but now
> that
> I think about it, BlackBox isn't too bad with 8bpp color. Assuming
> that
> somebody has fixed "update-menus" really any Debian window manager
> should
> work with KDE, Gnome, and other X apps. The Debian menus should
> provide
> access to all the installed packages which is all you really need.
> 
> BTW, regarding "update-menus" - the last time I tried it on hppa it
> worked
> as root but segfaulted as a normal user.
> 
> 
> 
> - Doug
> 
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