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Re: Oops. 1 Gig Recommendation 2nd try.



On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 01:50:59PM -0700, nate wrote:
> I set my sister up with Dual P2-233 with 384MB of ram and KDE and
> gnome were barely useable. I replaced it with a P3-500 with 512MB
> of ram and they are just a bit more barely useable.

How is this possible? I run gnome with no trouble on a 366MHz Celeron
laptop with 96MB Ram and 128MB swap. The only unusable part was
nautilus, so I just use gmc. OTOH, I don't know what you consider to be
useable, since:

> X doesn't become useful to me till it gets to 1024x768

and I like X on my 800x600 fine.

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Note that I use Debian version testing/unstable
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