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butsie
02-09-2003, 07:21 PM
hi. i'm in the process of getting a linux box up and running and i have a 1.6gig hdd (small i know:( ). i would like to know if i need to install kde or gnome, or both to get seq working. thank you for any help you can offer.


the butsie
Sneaky
02-09-2003, 07:51 PM
forget it hard drive too small for a GUI...
Cryonic
02-09-2003, 08:05 PM
Correction, Hard drive too small for either of those GUIs.
butsie
02-09-2003, 08:13 PM
okay, well how big do i need my hdd to be? once i establish a big enough hdd, which ui do i install: kde or gnome?
jgorrell
02-09-2003, 08:26 PM
they are just GUI's -- pick one.
dirfrops
02-09-2003, 08:29 PM
Get something bigger than 10 gig (which you pretty much have to buy nowadays) and install them both. Install all packets under custom installation...then make sure you do your updates.
Bob the builder
02-09-2003, 09:11 PM
Or Fluxbox

Its a small install and a great UI
Cryonic
02-09-2003, 10:17 PM
The point was, on a 1.6GB drive, YOU DON'T RUN KDE OR GNOME. Just install X and find a light-weight WM.
Spook
02-10-2003, 12:14 AM
QT is the graphics library that runs SEQ and KDE go with KDE. Also, 1.6G is fine (I have recently did so with 1.2G) just don't install everything :)
Mr. Suspicious
02-10-2003, 05:17 AM
Running ShowEQ in TWM (comes with any redhat version) on a 800MB HD just fine. I'm sorry to say aswell: This has been covered at least 3 times before aswell. Use the search on the words "Gnome KDE TWM" this will turn up two threads, the 2nd thread holds a post with links to yet more topics about this.
sauron
02-10-2003, 06:03 PM
On my Linux boxes, I partition 2Gig for Linux and have plently of space left over. I like KDE a lot better than GNOME.
Latigid
02-10-2003, 07:39 PM
there's good to be said about both KDE and Gnome, but they are also both the most resourse and space intensive of al the guis I know of. KDE, in their recent upgrade to 3.1, made some really nice improvements and IMHO is the beter of the two. It holds closer to the established standards that most people are used to - even though most of those standards were established by that other OS.

As said a little further up, BlackBox is a great gui and uses little resources. The same can be said for Icewm, twm and my favorite of them, Windowmaker. All of these take little hard drive space and little system resources to run. On my system KDE loads in about 15 seconds where Windowmaker loads in about 3.

I successfully installed Mandrake on a 1.6 gb hard drive and that included Gnome. I installed very little, mind you, but it worked. ;-)

Good luck!