XFCE won't install

[Erik Harrison]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:42:14 -0500, Rusty Herbert Cross
<rhcross at gmail.com> 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.
> 
What kinda K6? The lightest machine I ever ran 4.X on was a 700 MHz
celery with 64 megs of ram, slow but not unusable.

I'd say with the K6 there is a high likelihood that it will be just
unusuable. You can try the old 3.x series, if you want a desktop, it's
still hanging around in CVS.

If you still want to run Xfce 4.2 on that machine, I might consider
not building it there

> 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?
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