XFCE won't install

[Auke Kok]

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.
>
>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?
>


plenty, just browse the mailinglist archives. You didn't tell how fast 
your K6 was but I suspect it should run fine, albeit not as snappy as 
twm ;^)

sofar