On Monday 21 May 2001 23:42, you wrote:
> I have three machines, running 7.2 and kde 2....
>
> One is a P2450 with 128mb ram, and it flies with kde2
>
> the other, is a P200mmx with 64 mb of ram,,, this one is a gateway system
> but I put kde2 on it anyway, and I'd have to say that one isn't even that
> much slower then the PII450,,,,
> The third is a PIII800 with 128 and it zips along just fine,,,,
>
> dunno what all the fuss is about..........
>
> regards
>
> Frank
Well, the problem is that a relatively large percentage of the
people who try KDE 2 are unable to get it ro run fast enough to be usable.
About 50% of the people who responded to this question on the
ALE list reported slowness. Not just newbies; also experienced Linux
developers have reported the same problems.
The concern expressed by these developers was that they want their software
to _continue_ to run at a usable speed even if their customers upgrade to
the latest version of KDE. If they can't count on that being true, then they
probably won't encourage their clients to use Linux..
The most common reply I've gotten is "your configurationi is messed up'.
I suppose that might be possible if I had _done_ any configuration,
but I only installed the CD's onto a blank, formatted disk, using the
defaults.
Using the exact same method with Mandrake 7.1, everything works fine.
Same is true of SuSE 6.3, 6.4, Slack 4.0, TurboLinux 6, Debian...
So if the configuration is screwed, it's nothing I'm doing.
Add to that the fact that the developers mentioned earlier certainly have
the skills to find and fix a mis-configuration - but have neither found one
nor have they been able to fix it. I don't have those skills, so all I have
been abto to do is to confirm that there aren't a lot of extra processes
running - no httpd, no ftpd, etc. Yet, with none of these services running,
the computer is much slower than it is with M7.1 running with every
possible service activated.
Puzzling.
Regards,
Irv
