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System Requirements

Xubuntu:

  • CPU: 500Mhz+
  • RAM: 256MiB+ for Desktop/LiveCD - 512MiB recommended
  • Hard drive: 5GB
  • Graphics card and monitor capable of 800×600 resolution

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

Kwort

  • 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:
    1. Processor: PC i486 or above.
    2. RAM: 16Mb for base system (minimum). 32Mb for desktop (minimum), 64Mb recommended.
    3. Disk Space: 200Mb for base system, 1.5Gb for full desktop (Openoffice 2.0 included)

Memory footprint

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