From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 6:41:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D7A737B413 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 06:40:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id ACA2682E0022; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 06:41:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3B5ECE67.69F98918@wiegand.org> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 06:49:28 -0700 From: Chip X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Gustaf Tham , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: How can KDE 2.0 be so slow? References: <20010725121303.C3D4.GUS@algonet.se> <20010725040152.A48725@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:43:05PM +0200, Gustaf Tham wrote: > > > Is it really possible that the new versions of KDE decrease performance this much? > > Anything's possible :-) > > I definitely noticed the slowdown myself when I briefly tried KDE2: I > used to use an old version of KDE 1 on my pentium 120 a few years ago, > and it was slowish, but usable; KDE2 is too slow to be usable on my > PPro 233. I just happily use Windowmaker. > > Kris > I tried KDE2 on my FreeBSD box, a K6-2/350 with 64megs ram. It is so slow I don't even bother with it anymore. I use XFCE, which allows me to use KDE apps, though I use only one - KWrite, withoutrunning KDE2. -- Chip > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- Regards, -- Chip Wiegand CRW Computer Services www.wiegand.org chip@wiegand.org <------------------> Web page design Consulting PC Repair <------------------> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message