gentoo - wow!! - progress

[Ken Moffat]

dep wrote:

>begin  Leon A. Goldstein's  quote:
>
>| Add some RAM and see what happens.  My "son of lab rat" system is a
>| Pentium 233, originally with 64 MB of EDO RAM.  I obtained two 64
>| MB EDO DIMM's cheap and goosed up total RAM from 64 MB to 160 MB. 
>| Hoo Haa! KDE 2.x is a RAM hog.  I'd suggest downgrading to KDE 1.x
>| or adding RAM.
>
>first, this particular machine maxes out at 64. second, that's beside 
>the point -- linux *ought* to work on a p-133 with 64 megs, and it 
>doesn't satisfactorily. third, various epoch bugs in kde-1.x have 
>rendered it obsolete for most purposes.
>  
>
Indeed, part of the rational for switching to linux is it's (former?) 
ability to utilize lesser hardware.

If you want to use a p133, then use IceWM or XFCE. You can run all your 
kde and gnome stuff, albeit slow to start, but it will run and real work 
is possible. These frontends are quite lightweight and responsive.

I feel like this discussion has become personal, not philosophical, and 
is accomplishing little except annimosity in both parties involved. 
(Maybe I'm misreading it) Take a deep breath, gents.

As an aside, has anyone compared speeds of OpenOffice (or StarOffice) on 
Linux (whichever distro!) verses Windows (whichever variety!)???   I'm 
just curious.

Ken