On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:01:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
> Since installing RH I have been using KDE. I just switched to the command line
> and was shocked. I downloaded the kernel again and it took 258 seconds 
> - although I got one strange message about "eth0: Runt packet"!
> 
> Can this really be so. Is it reallly the case that things so down so much if
> started from within KDE.

I wrote to a newsgroup to see if I could get any other thoughts on my problem.
So far I have got only one reply. It suggests that the answer to my problem is
simply that ... well it's easy to paste the reply:

  
   It's simple. You don't have enough memory. KDE requires a lot of memory,
   more than you have, and the download time difference arises from disk
   paging activity, not network speed.

I have a PIII 1000Mhz processor and 256MB of memory.

What resources are recommended for KDE.

t.irvine



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