petrus4
June 6th, 2009, 06:53 PM
Hey everyone,
I wanted to ask what the minimum system requirements are for running KDE 4? I have a 3.0Ghz 686 Intel processor with 1 Gb of RAM, and an nVidia 8600GT video card, which has 512 Mb of RAM I think.
I hope people don't mind me posting this here, but I wasn't sure where to ask the question.
I did feel a little uneasy asking it here though because truthfully, I'm not actually running Ubuntu myself right now. I have, however, advocated it to both a cousin and a friend, and there is a high likelihood that it will end up installed on both of their machines.
I am currently running FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE, and I will admit that I am a lot happier. While I consistently advocate Ubuntu for novice users offline, truthfully I myself am not a novice.
Ubuntu's greatest strength, I feel, is the fact that a novice user can put a CD in the drive, answer a couple of simple questions, and have a complete system (hopefully with fully working hardware) with a welcoming, non-intimidating graphical interface, in less than 30 minutes. They don't normally need to use the command line until they're ready, either.
However, Ubuntu has a number of under-the-hood technical issues which I truthfully wasn't happy with. I can elaborate on those at greater length if it is desired, in the interests of providing hopefully constructive feedback on where I feel Ubuntu needs to improve.
FreeBSD, on the other hand, has taken me a solid month to customise to exactly the way I want it. Thus, in a way FreeBSD and Ubuntu are almost mirror opposites of each other.
FreeBSD takes a long time and a lot of work to set up and learn, but is extremely stable and reliable once you have done that. Ubuntu, by contrast, can give a user a full system in less than an hour, but my experience at least was that robustness unfortunately is not there to the same degree.
I hope this post is not seen as trolling; truthfully it ended up longer than I intended, but I wanted to communicate this here, in a hopefully diplomatic manner.
I have engaged in some trolling on these forums before, and I apologise for that, because I have come to genuinely see that Ubuntu is a potentially extremely valuable means of converting new users to the larger UNIX ecosystem.
I wanted to ask what the minimum system requirements are for running KDE 4? I have a 3.0Ghz 686 Intel processor with 1 Gb of RAM, and an nVidia 8600GT video card, which has 512 Mb of RAM I think.
I hope people don't mind me posting this here, but I wasn't sure where to ask the question.
I did feel a little uneasy asking it here though because truthfully, I'm not actually running Ubuntu myself right now. I have, however, advocated it to both a cousin and a friend, and there is a high likelihood that it will end up installed on both of their machines.
I am currently running FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE, and I will admit that I am a lot happier. While I consistently advocate Ubuntu for novice users offline, truthfully I myself am not a novice.
Ubuntu's greatest strength, I feel, is the fact that a novice user can put a CD in the drive, answer a couple of simple questions, and have a complete system (hopefully with fully working hardware) with a welcoming, non-intimidating graphical interface, in less than 30 minutes. They don't normally need to use the command line until they're ready, either.
However, Ubuntu has a number of under-the-hood technical issues which I truthfully wasn't happy with. I can elaborate on those at greater length if it is desired, in the interests of providing hopefully constructive feedback on where I feel Ubuntu needs to improve.
FreeBSD, on the other hand, has taken me a solid month to customise to exactly the way I want it. Thus, in a way FreeBSD and Ubuntu are almost mirror opposites of each other.
FreeBSD takes a long time and a lot of work to set up and learn, but is extremely stable and reliable once you have done that. Ubuntu, by contrast, can give a user a full system in less than an hour, but my experience at least was that robustness unfortunately is not there to the same degree.
I hope this post is not seen as trolling; truthfully it ended up longer than I intended, but I wanted to communicate this here, in a hopefully diplomatic manner.
I have engaged in some trolling on these forums before, and I apologise for that, because I have come to genuinely see that Ubuntu is a potentially extremely valuable means of converting new users to the larger UNIX ecosystem.