How much processor power does X require?

li · 01-27-2005

I'm planning to install Linux onto a laptop I have, mainly for remote control of my desktop Linux machine and other console related activities.

As im sure that wouldn't require too much processing power (its a P133 with 48mb ram btw), I became curious as to how much power X-windows requires, and if I could easily operate it on my laptop.

Any ideas?

Also does anyone have any idea whats the best distro to run on such a laptop?

**zdawg** · 01-27-2005

Actually the processor load isn't the issue (unless running graphic intensive apps) usually but rather the ram used.

**kkubasik** · 01-27-2005

either way, you can run X on those specs, but I woulnd NOT recommend KDE or Gnome, should you want to, try something like icewm or at the largest xfce. while they may not be as pretty or integrated, they still let you runx based app without worry.

**Stormblazer** · 01-30-2005

You could try enlightenment DR17 as well. I've heard it will run even on PDAs, so...

**psic** · 01-31-2005

How much ram and cpu would be the minimum for comfortably running KDE? I run KDE on my computer (it's the default and I have really gotten used to some of the apps), but I might be getting an older laptop and I was just thinking about what desktop environment I should try. Same goes for another computer that's currently running MS windows 98 (that one is a pentium 2 300mhz with 128 RAM). Is this good enough for KDE?

**mechmaster** · 01-31-2005

from personal and others experiance it may be quite possible to run KDE on that processor and that ram, but testing is a thing that i try first, but thats personal preferance

**valan** · 01-31-2005

That's way not enough for kde to be usable, but it will run. I reccomend Oroborus, which on my system uses up a whopping 2-3 mb of ram, compared to the 30-40 that kwin uses (plus all the other kde apps which tend to use much more memory then you would think they need).

**psic** · 01-31-2005

Cool, thanks for the info. I'll try some of the other desktop environments/window managers...

**sarumont** · 02-01-2005

You *can* use KDE on that small amount of RAM, but you'd have to slim it down to be useable (which is possible

).

**valan** · 02-01-2005

Originally Posted by sarumont

You *can* use KDE on that small amount of RAM, but you'd have to slim it down to be useable (which is possible

).

Sure, but why start with something so bloated when you can start with something so slim and about 60x faster anyway?

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