About the KDE issue, He was probably using XFree86 4 when it first came out and KDE1.1 or something. This was about the time of Mandrake 7 which was very slow using KDE as well. Using a more modern version of both XFree86 and KDE would be a much more rewarding experience.
Chris On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 01:01:05 +1100 "Jeff Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <quote who="Karl Clements"> > > > 2k ran better on this than slack8 with kde, although that was easy fixed > > with a change of wm > > Remember that KDE is a complete desktop environment, which includes a window > manager. > > > X is good, but it could be better look at the size of it its bloated > > Well, looking at the size of X running on... This IBM watch, and this Compaq > iPaq, and this Sharp Zaurus, and this Agenda Computing Agenda... > > X is not bloated. Where are you getting this idea? > > > Konqueror was slower to start than ie, kmail well I ditched that after > > importing my old oe mail because it was slow as well, my system was > > sitting at roughly 75% memory usage with kde, it now sits alot lower with > > fluxbox, Konqueror as a file browser was painful. > > Perhaps you're misunderstanding how Linux/*nix reports memory usage. I've > posted information about this a number of times, and I remember Andrew > posting a good one too. Please look through the archives. > > > In addition to the previously mentioned problems i haven't found a decent > > browser for X as yet, i compiled mozilla it didn't install to where i told > > it to, i compiled skipstone once it was installed it didn't run at all > > (gtkmozembed error) opera was dodgey, netscape was hella slow. > > Galeon and Mozilla are tops. Konqueror has a great rep, though I haven't > used it a hell of a lot as a browser. > > > the fact that it takes about half as much time to open ie on a 250mhz > > machine than it does mozilla on a 300 with more ram leads me to think > > there is room for improvement. > > Remember that most of IE is already loaded and ready to go; Mozilla has to > load far more than IE upon invokation. If you using the Mozilla turbo > system, it loads up Mozilla, and simply bounces up new windows as you need > them (the performance is the same as if you just opened a new window within > an existing Mozilla process). > > - Jeff > > -- > "GNOME, launched specifically to counter a threat to our freedom, is > the free software project par excellence." - Richard Stallman > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
