Why Kde should remain as light as possible

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 10:52, Luciano Montanaro wrote:

...
> This is a nice idea in general, but you still have to have a powerful
> server. I think Marco's idea is to have a distro working well on an aging
> home computer.
>
> Think a pentium-class PC with 32MB.

I'm afraid this is realistically not enough for running KDE with sufficent 
speed.
...
> On the other hand, I have tried Konqueror 3.2 on my old (1998) laptop
> (64MB, K6-2 350MHz) and it works. Should it have 128MB, it would be
> perfect. As it is, after removing unnecessary services, stripping the

Yes, something above 200 MHz and 128 MB RAM are good enough.

...
> About Qt optimization: compiling it with -Os -fomit-frame-pointer
> -funit-at-a-time its size drops by quite a bit.

Can you provide some numbers ?
Would be interesting.

Bye
Alex
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