Subject: Re: KDE or GNOME on a Quadra @ 25MHZ?
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.org>
From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/26/2004 00:49:46
Toad wrote:

>I'm running NetBSD 1.6.2 on my Quadra 610, 700MB Hard Disk, 23MB RAM. It
>works really fine!!
>
>Recently I installed a X server, now I have running "twm" and works
>great (in 2-bit color mode but great!)
>
>I have taked a look at NetBSD mac68k ports and I saw KDE and GNOME ( ie
>ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD-1.6.1/mac68k/kde ) ...
>
>Hmmm... how runs KDE or GNOME on mac68k machines? What about speed? :-S 
>
>It would work on my hardware?
>  
>
LOL!  I've wanted to do this, just for giggles, and to get a screenshot 
to show I did it.  It would be nightmarishly slow.  I've run iceWM (a 
very lightweight wm) on 68k, which is tolerable.  I couldn't get 
Blackbox to install or compile correctly on my box.

Tim


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