On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:57, vaibhav samant wrote:

Another important aspect which I have experienced is that all these desktops require powerfull PCs. I could very easily run Win SE/Me on a Celeron 333 MHz, with 64Megs of RAM, but could not run any of the linux desktops on this config. I believe KDE & GNOME are heavy. Some lighter X-managers like XFCE are good, but one loses the extensive menus etc.

Debian woody worked very well on an AMD K6II 500 with 64MB. Kde 2.2 afair. That was 4 yrs ago. Still runs on that hardware.

Pls correct me if I am wrong or I have missed any aspect.

I too am looking for a good desktop which would run smoothly on a Celeron 333 / P-II 220 / AMD K6 433 type PCs with good gui menus & functionality.

Ah! these beasties should be more expensive than antiques. GNU/ucLinux works on pdas and cell phones and a device with 32mb ram and 16 mb flash with X, sound, controls several external high power (KW) motors and runs on AA cells. You have to keep your software requirements, performance expectations and hardware config in line with the real world. Today's real world that is. Today's lowest performing box is a VIA C3 with 128mb and 40gb disk. And sarge works at a healthy clip on these. A base line intel box is i845 (was via p4m266A now no more available) with P IV celeron 2.8 GHz, 128MB ram and 40GB disk.

rgds jtd