KDE sucks was my first thought when I first ran Linux, almost a year ago.
Even though for a very short time. Love GNOME - it looks better, love the
Panel, even though, I mostly either use StarrOffice, or sit neck deep in a
terminal.
Solver
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Adams, Jamie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Linux List'"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Wow
> I guess it really depends on what you do with your system. I like to
> push mine right to its limits, running stuff like Windows in VMware
> (which is reasonably usable) and having several different web browsers
> open on a GNOME desktop. I've noticed that KDE and especially IceWM
> are faster than GNOME, but I find that GNOME suits my needs better
> (nothing can compare to Sawfish and the GNOME Panel :-)
>
>
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:26, Adams, Jamie wrote:
> > I dont know why you lot should be chuggin'. Im using a Toshiba
> > Satellite 2520CDT (AMD K62-300) with 64mb ram and a 4.1gig HDD,
> > everything runs perfectly on mine, much faster than 98 did! no
> > complaints here.. --
> > Jamie Adams
> > Housing Assistant
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> > >----------
> >
> > From: Sridhar Dhanapalan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > >Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Sent: 15 June 2001 07:33
> > >To: Jay needs a Guinness; Linux List
> > >Subject: Re: [newbie] Wow
> > >
> > >On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:58, Jay needs a Guinness wrote:
> > >> You are chuggin'?!!??!! I still have a Compaq 2266 with a Cyrix
> > >> 225MHz. Thank God I installed more RAM and a new hard drive. Me
> > >> PC is horribly obselete. But, not to disappoint you all, the new
> > >> computer I buy will be the new Dual Proc Mac with OS X. I refuse
> > >> to buy Windoze ever again, and I miss Macs.
> > >
> > >If I didn't have 256MB of RAM and a 12GB hard drive (which was
> > >absolutely massive when I bought it in 1998), I would've gone nuts
> > > a long time ago. My computer may be a bit on the slow side, but
> > > it's *just* (only just) fast enough to run GNOME with apps like
> > > Konqueror with anti-aliased fonts.
> > >
> > >I hope you don't plan on abandoning GNU/Linux entirely. Remember,
> > >Mandrake have a PPC Mac version in the works -- it's currently at
> > > the beta 1 stage, so it should be out quite soon. It even has a
> > > nifty app (Mac on Linux) that'll allow you to run Mac apps in
> > > Linux! If you're interested, there's a good FAQ list for Mac on
> > > Linux at
> > >http://www.ibrium.se/linux/overview.html.
>
> --
> Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> "There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
> LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
>
>
