On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 21:31:28 +0200
deloptes <deloptes@...> wrote:

> Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
> 
> > 2016-07-27 22:19 GMT+02:00 deloptes
> > <deloptes@...>:
> >> Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wednesday 27 July 2016 17:48:41 iadest@...
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Is it possible at all?
> >>> That is the question I am asking!!
> >>>
> >>
> >> I tried it running on raspberry 2 with 256MB of ram and it did not work.
> > 
> > I ran KDE 3.5 on systems with 128MB RAM without problems. Maybe you
> > need to allocate some swap, but this should at least work.
> > 
> > I used KDE 1.x on a Cyrix 150+ which worked pretty fast. On a AMD K6-2
> > 333MHz I remember that KDE 2 and 3 felt sluggish compared to 1, but I
> > do think I managed with them for a while on that system as well. I
> > don't think Trinity would really work on those systems. What I
> > remember KDE 1.x was more complete than many of the current light
> > weight DEs.
> 
> I just checked the raspberry yesterday  - it has 512MB RAM. It has also
> swap. Indeed it ran but it was so slowly that I render it unusable.

The difference there might be ARM vs. x86, though.  I've run one of the 
EXE Gnu/Linux Live CDs with TDE on an early Pentium III (550 MHz)
with about the same amount of RAM, and it was usable, although programs 
were a bit slow to start.  That might just be the CD drive, though.

I haven't tried it on my 486 yet (and I'd have to do something about the
busted serial port first, even if there's a compatible LiveCD). Maybe I
should, just to see how bad it would really be. ;)

E. Liddell