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System Requirements
- CPU: 300Mhz+
- RAM: 192mb+
Luit Linux (which uses Xfce) recommends:
- CPU : Intel Pentium I
- RAM : 32 Mb
OSNews.com in reader comment dated 2005
- XFCE - Minimum: P133 with 32mb ram
- User recommends at least 192MB for XFCE4. Another recommends +200MHz and 96MB RAM. Note that Wolvix is a livecd and has a ramdisk.
- Kwort is a slackware-based operating system featuring the Xfce4 desktop with Kwort's own Network Manager and kpkg package manager. Its minimum requirements are:
- Processor: PC i486 or above.
- RAM: 16Mb for base system (minimum). 32Mb for desktop (minimum), 64Mb recommended.
- Disk Space: 200Mb for base system, 1.5Gb for full desktop (Openoffice 2.0 included)
The following memory footprint test was obtained on an OpenSuse 11.4 notebook and this script.
- Runlevel 3 : 33 MiB
- Login screen with kdm4 (and no opened session) : 115 MiB
- TWM session : 80 MiB
- IceWM session : 83 MiB
- Xfce 4.8 session : 133 MiB
- KDE 4.6.0 : 280 MiB