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

[Ed Robbins]

On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 at 22:19, Ed Robbins <edd.robbins at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Note: It's nothing like a proper desktop environment though.


>
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 at 22:00, Piotr Michniewski <pmichniewski at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You could try animate from ImageMagick.
>>
>> --
>> 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
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>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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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