Bill, I may try some of the other interfaces. Apparently KDE is just too memory demanding for that machine.
I previously had 8.1 installed on my main computer here (at the time a 533 MHz Celeron with 256 MB of RAM) and it was glaringly slow compared to Win 2000 Pro. Again, that version of KDE may have been the culprit. Win 2000Pro on this machine (now upgraded to a 900 Duron) flies. 2000 Server on the old 533 Celeron is quite fast as well. I've not tried Linux on either of these machines recently. Can't tie them down with experimenting. That's why I'm using the "extra" box for playing with Linux. My comparison for speed had been with that machine on which I had previously had a Win2k Server install and currently NT 4. Both NT and W2K run magnitudes faster than KDE on that machine. Couldn't stay with W2K on it as it did not support the old SCSI card I've got in it to run my tape drive. NT runs it just fine. MD8.2 has seen this SCSI card so I'm hoping that I can try it out. See if I can access that tape drive for backup purposes. Dan W. Dooley WB5TKA Bedford, Texas e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web address: http://www.qsl.net/wb9tka May Goddes love blest ye alle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Speed differences between OSs > If you said Windoze98, I could understand this. But not 2000 server. I > have a 300MHz PII machine with 160MB of ram with mandrake8.2 and win98. > KDE runs slower than win98 and xvce runs much faster than either one. I > also have a laptop with a 500MHz PIII and 128MB of ram with win2k and > mandrake8.2. Win2k is a pig. Even kde on either of these machines runs > circles around it. > > Now I see you've got a slower machine with less ram. I would suggest > trying one of the lighter desktops like xfce. I definately wouldn't > suggest kde on a machine like that. It just wants too much memory. > > Bill > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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