Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 06:49:28 -0700 From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Gustaf Tham <gus@algonet.se>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How can KDE 2.0 be so slow? Message-ID: <3B5ECE67.69F98918@wiegand.org> References: <20010725121303.C3D4.GUS@algonet.se> <20010725040152.A48725@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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.
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