I see. Is Gnome for Cygwin a viable option? Or should I downgrade to an older version of KDE or something?
Thanks for your time :). "- -" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > From: Ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sat Mar 15 22:35:20 EET 2003 > Subject: Re: KDE is running extremely slow. > > >> > I have an 800 MHZ PII with 384 megs of RAM. I'm new to this linux thing. > > >> Are you running the X-Window System under Microsoft Windows? > > >Yes, I'm running XFree86/Cygwin with KDE 2 on top of it. > > Ok. You had me confused when you mentioned Linux. As you know XFree86 is not operation system dependent, and the XFree project is also much older (mid 1980's) than Linux. The X Window System is the de facto windowing standard for many other operating systems too than Linux - mainly variants of Unix. > > As for KDE2 at the time of its release people were unhappy with its performance on Linux/Unix as well, and add to that the little overhead of running X on cygwin then the not-so-good performance is hardly any surprise. But "slow" is of course relative. If you find something else as big as KDE2 for cygwin X you could can run that and compare the performance to KDE2. > > One should keep in mind though that KDE2 for cygwin is not considered production quality by its authors - thus the not-so-smooth performance is understandable.
