Re: System Requirments



On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 12:50 -0400, dsr tao merseine nu wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 04:32:13PM -0400, Joseph wrote:
> > What are the system requirements for running GNOME? I will be using  
> > NetBSD on a 450MHz IBM Aptiva (256MB RAM, 20 GB HD) and would like to  
> > use GNOME because of the very great look (I'm a Mac user, so I want  
> > to have the same experience when using the PC)
> 
> You can do that, but you'll be much happier if you can add lots
> of RAM. A gigabyte or so will help.

Hi Dan!

I agree, though I would say even adding 256M to go up to 512M total
would be great. My sister and fiance both use Ubuntu on Thinkpads T22
with P3M-900s at 512MB and are reasonably happy with the performance.

mike

> 
> -dsr-
> 
> 
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Michael R. Head <burner suppressingfire org>
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