Crossposted to Debian forums.
I had forgotten Trinity was a thing - an entire KDE 3.5 suite that I can run on my netbook. Clickable screenshots below, text below that
Got new-to-me laptop as an early xmas gift and to make a long, boring story short my Atom N270 netbook which had been running backups for the network and acting as a DLNA server got retired.
What to do with a perfectly good piece of hardware? Put KDE 3.5 on it
Over on the Debian forums someone mentioned Trinity and I'd completely forgotten about that project; so I added the repo and installed the metapackage.
Setup was pretty much flawless using instructions for Sid that were buried a little deep in the documentation. Got one gripe, though - Stretch/Sid installs pull the entire stable package in as a dependency but you can't browse the archives because the stable repo is only mapped to the machine during install. Easy to fix so it's only a small grumble.
Out of the box with compositing on and conky running the machine uses about 23MB more RAM at idle than my fluxbox install on the same machine; by getting rid of the stuff I don't use and killing services I don't need I've got Trinity's RAM usage within 7MB of fluxbox at idle and Trinity is one heck of a lot more configurable.
The netbook has been repurposed again; gonna use it in the bedroom for the very few times I need to computer in the bedroom. Much easier to read than my phone
Anyway, linkage for those what might be interested - https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
Have fun
I had forgotten Trinity was a thing - an entire KDE 3.5 suite that I can run on my netbook. Clickable screenshots below, text below that
Got new-to-me laptop as an early xmas gift and to make a long, boring story short my Atom N270 netbook which had been running backups for the network and acting as a DLNA server got retired.
What to do with a perfectly good piece of hardware? Put KDE 3.5 on it
Over on the Debian forums someone mentioned Trinity and I'd completely forgotten about that project; so I added the repo and installed the metapackage.
Setup was pretty much flawless using instructions for Sid that were buried a little deep in the documentation. Got one gripe, though - Stretch/Sid installs pull the entire stable package in as a dependency but you can't browse the archives because the stable repo is only mapped to the machine during install. Easy to fix so it's only a small grumble.
Out of the box with compositing on and conky running the machine uses about 23MB more RAM at idle than my fluxbox install on the same machine; by getting rid of the stuff I don't use and killing services I don't need I've got Trinity's RAM usage within 7MB of fluxbox at idle and Trinity is one heck of a lot more configurable.
The netbook has been repurposed again; gonna use it in the bedroom for the very few times I need to computer in the bedroom. Much easier to read than my phone
Anyway, linkage for those what might be interested - https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
Have fun
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