[kde-linux] KDE on an old computer

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday 16 November 2008, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> I am hoping to put Lenny with KDE 3.5.x on a client's computer.  It has the
> minimum specifications as laid out on the KDE website.  It is a P 2 or 3 (I
> think 3) with 64 MB.  But how realistic is this?  Should I be thinking of a
> lighter desktop or window maker?

That really depends on the expected workload.

I have been using a P2 at 350MHz with 96MB RAM and some KDE 3.5.x for CD/DVD 
burning with K3B without any problem.
At some point before it had 128MB RAM and was my main KDE development 
machine :)

Of course using KDE applications almost exclusively helped to save resources 
since the per-application overhead is comparably small.

You could probably experiement using a virtual machine setup with little 
memory and swap.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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