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yo2lux
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 Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:50 pm Post subject: gentoo for desktop |
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I want to use Gentoo for desktop on following PC:
Intel Pentium 3 Klamath 530Mhz
512MB SDRAM
60 GB HDD
32MB Video ATI Card
Sound Card PCI Creative 128
My question is, which Desktop Environment is good for this computer?
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gentleman
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Well, you can use any environment, you can use KDE, Gnome, Icewm ... I would suggest to use KDE and set the performance bar at low 
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yo2lux
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| Gentoo on Intel Pentium 3 work faster than SuSE, Ubuntu after programs compiled? |
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tost
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I suppose KDE is a bit too slow, nevertheless on my 333mhz machine it worked aswell. 
Xfce4 or gnome should be better in performance.
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Penguin of Wonder
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I think Fluxbox would the best. KDE and Gnome are both on the bloated side, and considering your hardware isn't on the new side, KDE might be a sluggish.
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broken_chaos
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KDE's not bad on running speed (other than starting up) in general...
But compiling it takes days, in my experience (particularly on slow machines). So it's a major pain to upgrade. (So I'm now a happy Fluxbox user.  ) |
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rush_ad
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| if you want something that just works, then you may want to go for xfce4 or if you want something thats usable with some configurations, then use fluxbox. i suggest stay away from kde, gnome with such hardware. |
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tboloo
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| I used to have k6-2 500MHz with SUSE & KDe, but that wasn't the "demon of speed". Than I changed to gentoo & icewm (although it took me a week to have everything compiled & set) and the difference was HUGE. So if you like to run gentoo on such machine I advise to try one of the lighter WM's. |
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