On Tuesday 23 October 2001 12:33 am, you wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:43:31 -0700, "John Hokanson Jr." > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > 1. Am I to understand that KDE 2.1.1 is simply slow? Just out of > > curiosity I fired up GNOME 1.4, and it ran MUCH faster. I've > > heard that KDE 2.2.1 fixes a lot of the slowness of 2.1.1. Is > > this true? > > KDE 2.2.1 is a bugfix release for KDE 2.2, and it is a little > faster than 2.2. I would say it is about on par with 2.1.1 in terms > of speed. > > I mostly use GNOME, which I have found to be significantly faster > than KDE. I have heard others say the exact opposite, so I guess it > depends on your system. >
Thanks. I'll try 2.2.1, and if there's no performance increase, I'll consider switching to GNOME. Both are on my system right now anyways. > > 2. RPMDrake seems jacked to me. I'm trying to remove Netscape 4.x > > from my system and it won't budge. It just stils there saying > > it's preparing to remove the selected components and I have to > > kill RPMDrake. I am using Mandrake 8.0 BTW. Is there a workaround > > for this? > > Run "rpm --rebuilddb" in a root terminal. > I tried this. Now it hangs at 99% when it goes to scan CD1. :( - John
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