On Wednesday 17 April 2002 11:49 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: > On Wednesday 17 April 2002 05:43 pm, Bob Raymond wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 April 2002 2:47 am, Tim Wunder wrote: > > > On Tuesday 16 April 2002 09:26 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:01:13 -0400 Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > > or slower than KDE2x. Running on an AMD Athlon 950 with 384MB RAM > > > > > > > > If you run this stuff on half that iron, you'd notice a difference. > > > > :') > > > > > > Yep. I could even run Windows on this box ;-) > > > > Windows is actually faster on my box than KDE, if I consider application > > load times. Comparison: > > > > rig is Athlon 1.4ghz, 512mb SDRAM, Radeon 8500 video, 40GB 7200RPM drive > > for Windows, 13GB 5400RPM drive for Gentoo (I know it's unfair, but my > > sound card is better supported in Windows, so I need the HD for > > recording). > > > > Windows XP Pro Gentoo 1.1a, KDE 3.0 > > boots in 30 secs. boots in 15 secs. > > Mozilla load time 5 secs. Mozilla load time 10 secs. > > Mozilla mail load time 5 secs. KMail load time 15 secs. > > Irrelevant to my point. You can run a modern linux distro on less hardware > than what I have. In fact, most linux distro's will install on less than > half the hardware I'm running and will run well. Maybe not KDE3, or KDE2, > or Gnome. But xfce, enlightnement, blackbox, or even no GUI at all. > If you want a webserver, mail server or even a file and print server for a > small network, a modern linux distro will handle it far better than Windows > XP Server on far less hardware. > > FWIW, Kmail 1.4 (which is the version supplied with KDE 3.0), starts in 3 > seconds for me. Maybe Gentoo ain't so great after all ;-) > > Tim
I've gotten KDE 2.1.1 running just fine on a Pentium 200MMX, 128MB RAM, and Gnome on a Pentium 60, 48MB RAM. In both cases, I had everything faster than in Windows (2000 and XP on the Pentium 200, 98 and 95 on the Pentium 60). My Gentoo build is still recovering from my stupidity, typing: rm -rf /etc instead of: rm -rf etc Bob Raymond -- 12:04am up 9:18, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.14 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
