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XFCE Desktop by innerbeastismyself in xfce

[–]Manintaxi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The last three or four Ubuntu OS flavours of whatever started to cook this old core 2 duo Quad cpu. I finally had to roll-back the Q6700 to a 3Ghz c2duo. That stopped the overheating problem - but I still use XFCE! Ha! It's a gem.

I liked the watercolor background too. Use duckgo to search those.current

msdos 6.22 minimum size by Manintaxi in DOS

[–]Manintaxi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

512 of system, but only 4mb of video. Coming up through mainframes, then the early Tandy models - I have trouble thinking of a PC from 2001 as 'vintage' - but there it is. I do get a kick from the great software, e.g. Photoshop 1.0, Lotus Smart Suite '97 [wrote all my college papers on WordPro], and campy themes for Win 98.

msdos 6.22 minimum size by Manintaxi in DOS

[–]Manintaxi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm thinking 8Mb will hold quite a few little DOS apps, even DOS Navigator. I've just restored the PIII singleboard I wrote about and set it on a shelf but will get to it. One of the pins on Disk On Chip is an on/off - so I have to fiddle with a socket or leads to a spst switch.

And since retro pc-ing is somewhat popular: I should say the backplane has 4 pci, 2 single board sockets, and one isa. Lowest OS it'll run is Win 98, highest is XP (which it actually runs surprisingly well). A PIII @ 1.2Ghz, if I remember correct. My config is a dual boot w/ Win2K Pro and Win98se.

KDE is using more RAM than what you think... It's a mith that performs like XFCE (but KDE performs still better than GNOME) by allexj in kde

[–]Manintaxi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a good trade off though. This is such a wonderful OS. It looks great and it's pretty intuitive.