XFCE won't install

[Misu Moldovan]

Rusty Herbert Cross wrote:

[snip]

> 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?

Couldn't resist to share my latest XFCE related experience... I've 
installed 4.2 (from the os-cillation deb repository) in a Debian Sarge 
UTF-8 environment that runs on a 400 Mhz Pentium II machine with 128 MB 
of SDRAM, a Matrox G400 video card and a Seagate 7200.7 160 Gb hdd 
(which given the circumstances tops at about 28 MB/s). It's incredibly 
responsive even with a media player, a browser, a mailer and multiple 
terminals running for hours (XMMS, Galeon, Balsa and Terminal).

I'm particularly amazed as I've seen faster machines crawling with a 
Gnome 2.8 desktop if only 128 MB of RAM are available. By the way, the 
whole distribution currently occupies about 800 MB with complete 
software for my multimedia (XMMS, Mplayer, Gqview, Grip), editing 
(Abiword, Gnumeric, The Gimp) and browsing needs.

Impressive!

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Misu