Charles Shannon Hendrix skrev:

>On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:49:37PM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:

>> Apart from the traditionalist perspective, one big problem would be finding
>> something which would run on all NetBSD platforms. Gnome and KDE are too
>> bloated even on modern high-end hardware, I don't want to think of how it
>> would run, or even compile, on my HP300 or Mac68ks.  I don't think a
>> NetBSD-related solution would be out of place here, instead of one of the
>> Linux-derived everything-but-the-kitchen-sink bloat monsters.

>I have an Athlon 700MHz, 512MB RAM, fast SCSI, etc. It took nearly 2
>hours I believe to build KDE 2.2.2.

>I have heard of people with "little" systems like a P200 Intel with
>128MB or RAM building it nearly all day and all night.

>An HP300?  All I can say is make sure you ship good binaries so the user
>doesn't have to build it.

>But at the same time, I don't want to be limited by small machines either.
>Maybe just make sure the install documentation discusses the speed
>issues and things like that.

IMNSHO, a GUI shouldn't require machines running at several hundred MHz. It's
just a very basic system service, not a killer app in itself.

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