XFCE won't install

[Rusty Herbert Cross]

I have an 400Mhz K6 3D

Wow, I guess Debian is the way to go.  Ideally I'd like to get a media
player too.

420djoe, what browser do you use?  Because Mozilla-Firefox is too slow
and lynx is fast but too plain.




On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:38:10 +0000, 420djoe <djoe at netcabo.pt> wrote:
> Rusty Herbert Cross wrote:
> > I'm installing XFCE 4.2.0 on an older computer.  An AMD-K6 with 256 Mb
> > of Ram.  The OS is OpenBSD 3.6.  I ran the installer for 46.7 hours
> > with no noticeable progress.
> >
> 
> Hi Rusty.
> I have XFCE 4.2 running on an AMD-K6 II with 512 Mb of Ram. The
> distribuition I'm using is Gentoo (gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r9).
> To run XFCE with brouser, mail client, gaim and some other aplications I
> don't heven use half my Ram.
> 
> > The top command reports that make was running at %96 for all 46.7
> > hours, so it is not frozen as I had thought.
> > Top also shows that I have plenty of RAM (150Mb free) while the OS,
> > the installer, and the X system occupy 90Mb.
> >
> > The .xfce4.installer-log has 6 pages more than a log for a 14 hour
> > install that I cancelled last week.  I want to ask this group, is
> > there any anecdotal evidence that XFCE will run on a computer as old
> > as this?
> > 
> I also had to whait for days to get my system to compile it self, but
> now it is fine.
> 
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> Good luck!
>