On 16/01/07, Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Oded, people...
Few weeks ago, I worked temporarily at a small company, and they gave
me a PC which was with Athlon XP (if I recall it was 1.6 Ghz or
something) with 756MB RAM to work with.
So, I installed CentOS 4.4, upgraded my KDE 3.5.5, and upgraded
OpenOffice to the latest one, and used FireFox 2 for browsing. I
started to work.
I started to use OpenOffice to write a small spreadshot. BOY was it
slow as hell! it was so slow that I was almost sure I had some Pentium
2 300Mhz processor.
Switching apps (using ALT TAB) was a PITA. I have not been running
many applications: Twinkle, Kopete, FireFox, KMail, OO, and Konsole.
Nothing more. The machine was crawling.
I took Office 2003 from the Windows team, installed Crossover 6 (the
latest version finally solves the flickering flash bug), and started
to use Office 2003. Finally I could write somthing without the machine
being crawling, but opening few more tabs in FF 2, and the machine
crawled again..
My opinion: Some serious debate needs to be occured, whether in
slashdor or the mailing lists, some sort of "shake up" in the
GNOME/KDE development community, to remind them that this situation
cannot be continue, and some diet is required.
I heard my advocates who recommend people to switch to Linux and use
KDE or GNOME with 256MB RAM. To them I can say HA HA! go ahead, fire
the latest GNOME and open 2-3 apps and give the machine a minute or
so, it will be almost unresponsive. It's better in KDE but not by
much. If someone wants something speedy, they should look at using
FVWM, flux box or any other "lite" window manager and use some
independent applications. I used FVWM with Kopete and KMAIL and
Konqueror, and the results were pretty good on a 192MB machine. I
tried to switch to GNOME (yes, stupid decision) and I had to reset the
machine in order to get my control back.
Today, everyone is laughing/amazed by the hardware requirement of
Windows VISTA (specially with Aero Glass interface). Well, my friends,
at this pace, GNOME (and maybe even KDE) is going at this way, with
all the latest GLX eye-candy, and the hefty memory requirements. I do
not know the future, but I do remember KDE usage only few years ago
with a Pentium 4 1.7Ghz, 512MB RAM, and it was very usable and
enjoyable.
Thanks,
Hetz
KDE is still very usable, if you use it. Instead of FIrefox, use
Konqueror. Instead of OpenOffice, use KOffice. Instead of Thunderbird,
use Kmail. You'll find that it'll run just fine on a machine with
128MB RAM, even though the KDE developers recommend 192MB.
And don't runn Apache, Bind, SSH, or other daemeons in the background
if you don't need them.
Dotan Cohen
http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/lyrics/149/377/nine_inch_nails/the_fragile_right.html
http://fedorafaqs.org
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