Joni Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Hi, What are the system requirements for GNOME? I have Mandrake 10 and I would like to use it with GNOME, but my second PC is not very new. It has: P2@360 Mhz 192 SDRAM 6.5 G HD GeForce 4 I would use it to write documents, suft the net and ofcourse I would need to install firewall ( Firestarter ) on it. Does GNOME run on my pc how well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 it should run on your box without major problems. you can test your box before going for gnome by download e.g. the beatrix live-cd. then you will see if your system is able to run gnome with an acceptable speed or if it will be too slow for your tastes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowe Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 I used to run gnome on a machine with 256mb ram and to be honest it was plain awful, the slowest loading program was nautilus, so if you do decide to go with gnome use a different file brower like rox. Still i think xfce would be the best to use on that computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 In Gnome 1, Nautilus used to be a pain to run. But things are much better since Gnome 2. I have Mandriva2005 (used to have Mdk10.0) on a PII 350 with 192MB ram, and a 8GB hard disk. It can handle all this at the same time, though not very fast, I admit: - my wife with a Gnome2 session running, with Gimp, Thunderbird, Firefox. - me on the laptop, connected on the PC with SSH, with X11 forwarding of a IceWM session to the laptop; me running Thunderbird, Firefox, screen. - all needed: ssh server (xinetd), IMAP server (BincIMAP with xinetd), POPfile server, Postfix server... So my answer is definitely YES you can. You'd better use ROX rather than Nautilus, though. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 based on how gnome runs on my celeron 600, 192mb, gf2 I sure would hate to run it on your box.....but then, before I had my newer box it wasn't bad, so I guess it depends on your patience and what you are used to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 XFCE4 would be a better bet, and without invoking any KDE or Gnome related services (if any present) at startup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 speed is relative. gnome ran fine on my p2 300mhz. or at least, better than windows ever did. So while it might be slower than other lightweight desktops, or faster computers, depending on what you like, it may well be fast enough. Best way to know? give it a shot, you aint got nothing to lose. iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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