[E3-hacking] Is it possible to install a Desktop Environment into E3 Linux

[Ed Robbins]

gmenu2x is probably your best bet. It's a GUI that runs on the framebuffer
using SDL, generally used to launch SDL applications. It's used on the
zipit z2, gp2x etc (similar specs) mostly for launching emulators, music
players etc.

On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 at 22:00, Piotr Michniewski <pmichniewski at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You could try animate from ImageMagick.
>
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> Piotr Michniewski
>
>
> niedz., 14 kwi 2019 o 22:48 Nick Griffin <span1922 at live.com> napisał(a):
>
>> I guest it would be imposable, Has anyone got any ideas on how to show a
>> gif on the E3 screen..?
>>
>> Spanner..
>>
>> *From:* Piotr Michniewski <pmichniewski at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* ‎Sunday‎, ‎14‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎21‎:‎39
>> *To:* Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software
>> <e3-hacking at earth.li>
>>
>> I used to run KDE 1.x and GNOME 1.x and even Mozilla on a PC with 32MB of
>> RAM. But that was ~15 years ago. I think modern Mozilla would refuse to run
>> with that.
>> You could probably try to run some lightweight WMs like IceWM or
>> something.
>>
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>> Piotr Michniewski
>>
>>
>> niedz., 14 kwi 2019 o 22:24 Antony Stone <Antony.Stone at e3.open.source.it>
>> napisał(a):
>>
>>> On Sunday 14 April 2019 at 22:05:45, Nick Griffin wrote:
>>>
>>> > I was thinking of the GNOME Desktop, It would need a light, or is it
>>> not
>>> > possible because the E3 is not powerful enough..?
>>>
>>> I don't know quite what sort of light you're thinking of using, but
>>> there is
>>> no way the E3 has anything like enough RAM to run a "standard" Linux
>>> graphical
>>> desktop environment.
>>>
>>> The CPU may be slow, but without enough RAM you'll get nowhere.
>>>
>>>
>>> Antony.
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