As I recall it was much faster remote displaying a KDE desktop form another PC on my LAN than it was to run the KDE on windows. But as Aaron pointed out, it was probably one of those projects that was based on a "coolness factor" of just being able to do it. I was just looking at the KDE pages for cygwin. I guess they have been working on performance.
Mike On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 00:57, b-r-i-a-n - wrote: > I tried KDE 2.2 once under Cygwin once. It was interesting to see it > running under Windows, but I found it was very slow compared to running > under XWindows on Linux. There are obvious reasons for that though. > > :-) > > - Brian - > > >From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Future CLUG Meetings > >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:52:54 -0700 > > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Wednesday 11 December 2002 12:00, Michael Petch wrote: > > > On a side note there use to be a version of KDE that ran natively under > > > Windows/Cygwin/Xfree86 (KDE 2.2 I think). It was only a beta product and > > > >yep. 2.2 > > > > > it was buggy, but it was an interesting attempt to put KDE on Windows. > > > Not sure if that project is still active. > > > >yes, it is, but it's just one or two guys doing it in their odd hours... > >it's > >more a "because we can" thing than a "hey, this is a great idea" concept, > >as > >i understand it... > > > >- -- > >Aaron J. Seigo > >GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > > >"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" > > - Albert Einstein > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > > >iD8DBQE99u7W1rcusafx20MRAui5AJ4yFQHRHhwahQ6OVGSsyU6qta+WhwCeO4qG > >4X2sXqk5oths4P3V3Xz4mrQ= > >=6rS7 > >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- Michael Petch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd.
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