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Subject: kde4 - To upgrade from kde3 or not - that is the question
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Hi

The Subject is selected with apologies to the bard. What are the pros-cons of 
upgrading to kde4 on an intensively used system?

Which is:
FreeBSD ***.vizion2000.net 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 16 
09:27:38 PDT 2008     ****@**.vizion2000.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  
amd64
With an nvidia graphics card:
(Extract from xorg.conf:)
Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        Option     "HWcursor"     "False"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
        #Option     "FlatPanel"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtcNumber"                # <i>
        #Option     "FPScale"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPTweak"                   # <i>
        #Option     "DualHead"                  # [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nv"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "C51G [GeForce 6100]"
        BusID       "PCI:0:5:0"
Thanks in advance for advice

David