On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, SamMaEl wrote:

* 
* 	I'm thinking of playing around with KDE, but I'm wondering what
* kind of disk space it will take up... I've got about 200 MB to play with
* and not have to worry about filling anything up, plus space on a few other
* partitions, but is it worth the 20 hours it'll take to download and
* compile? ;-)
* 

	At the risk of starting a flame war about the merits of kde, GUIs,
etc. I would say that on a machine as slow as an old mac, the memory and
processor overhead will be quite significant - I sysadmin a number of
alpha 3000s, and they aren't the fastest machines in the world by a long
shot, but they're decent, and have LOTS of memory - anyway, i don't like
the overhead they put on those machines, so I imagine kde on a 680x0 could
be pretty frustrating. Take these words with a grain of salt, I don't like
a single GUI besides MacOS anyway... ;-)

cheers,
Adrian


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