A Mini-Kde project, was: Why Kde should remain as light as possible

Stefan Heimers stefan at heimers.ch
Sun Mar 14 14:33:58 CET 2004


On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, M. Fioretti wrote:

> which only has X or kdrive installed:
> 
>      stripped Qt
>      no arts
>      kmail
>      koffice
>      konqueror
>      kopete
>      kwin
>      nothing else.

This feature list looks similar to what slax provides on a less than 200
MB iso image. You might ask them how they stripped KDE down.

http://slax.linux-live.org

But I guess they optimized primarily for disk space, not cpu/memory.

It's still amazing, you can run KDE3.2 and Koffice from a mini CD-R.



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