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Lee Jones wrote:
>
> I've managed to install basiclinux 3 onto an old laptop 
> I've also successfully managed to install KDE 

Interesting.  I don't know of anybody else running KDE on
BasicLinux.

> I was wondering if anyone had done it any better at all?

Not with KDE, but some of us have added bits of GTK/Gnome.
Icewm was designed to be small-footprint window manager for
Gnome, and many Gnome applications (like sylpheed and AbiWord) 
can be made to run on BL3 without too much trouble.  Personally
I use all of the above on BasicLinux, plus Gnumeric (the Gnome
spreadsheet).  Gnumeric was more difficult to install -- it
required most of the Gnome foundation packages.

> After installing all the nececcary bits and pieces, the 
> installation for basiclinux went from around 8mb or so 
> to just over 100mb.

I would expect a similar Gnome installation to be less
than that.

> I Installed KDE 1.1 (from slackware 4), QT, libraries, etc 
> but I was wondering maybe any of these could be cut down 
> in some way to make them smaller?

Rather than installing the complete desktop, I would first
get the wm working and then install the desired applications
(plus the libraries shown by ldd).  This is probably easier
to do with Gnome than KDE.

Cheers,
Steven

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