Interesting article about "What Linux is doing wrong on the desktop"

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Sun, 07 May 2006 18:26:12 -0700
Scott <listboi at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:

> I ran Fedora Core 2 and 3 on a 500Mhz Pentium III w/256 MB of RAM. I
> used both GNOME and KDE.  I did this for a number of months until I
> replaced that PC.  It was slow, but not much slower than Windows 2000
> (which I dual booted on that computer).
> 
> I'd say that's the absolute minimum though.  I'd have probably run
> XFCE if I'd realized how much faster it was.
> 
> Provided you're running the right Desktop Environment/Window Manager,
> I don't see why you couldn't run Linux on a Pentium II w/128 MB of RAM
> (GNOME and KDE would be out of the question, of course).

Granted, it's been 4+ years ago but I used to run (an older version
of) xfce on my Pentium 166.  It ran fairly well.  KDE would run, too,
but a little bit slowly.  IceWM fairly flew. (which is why I'm still a
fan of IceWM)

Cybe R. Wizard
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