On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:03:38PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 11:56, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Maybe in, say, DDR. > > 256 megs ddr = 80 euro. Reason my box has 256 meg :) I'll upgrade once I have > a game that needs more for textures. Well, I'm talking Australian dollars. There was a reason why I still had the PII when I *maintained* KDE. > > It's pretty simple - there's even a HOWTO around. > > Url? Google is your friend. :) > > For me, it meant Konsole with a few tabs open, a couple of Konq > > sessions, a KWord session, and Mutt having a good go at a 40,000-mail > > Maildir. > > I use kmail for 5000 mail-maildirs ;) KMail kinda sucked back then, and I now have all my mail at work, so read it with Mutt in a remote session. > > I don't see why you'd "need" OpenOffice or Mozilla. > > OOo is also ridiculous. It should share nore with the other available open > source software - such as widgets. I'd be delighted to save my files with > those gorgeous QT dialogs instead of the pathetic built-in windows ui clone > they use now. I wonder why Sun hasn't used Motif for the Staroffice UI > actually. OOo is ridiculous in so many ways, including a 15min startup time on lower-end machines. It's the worst benchmark of anything you could possibly pick. > > BTW, KGhostView posed no difficulties with huge PDFs, either. Not even > > image-laden ones, on my laptop. > > KGhostview is still buggy. The first pdf my dad tried to open with it showed > up sideways, off course the rest of the page in place. Grmbl... Did you report a bug? :) > > And, as someone pointed out, most of the RAM being "used" is actually > > just cache, so it's non-critical if it gets swapped out. > > ... and virtual memory under Linux is "pretty good". It's monitoring it that > sucks ;) *nod*. > > I agree that memory is cheap, right. My box has 512mb of 333MHz DDR, > > soon to be 1gb. Problem is that people often don't have even $au60 to > > spare, or maybe are stuck with old boxes with older, more expensive RAM, > > or whatever. I was in that situation for quite a while. > > > > Or maybe they're saving to get a whole new machine, this time with DDR. > > > > 128mb to run any OS is stupid, 256 ridiculous. If your assertions were > > true, I'd be demanding KDE go straight back to the drawing board. > > Actually I'd appreciate if someone took parts of kdebase and libs under the > magnifier glass again :) . > > But anywa, they're going in the right direction. Performance has had a lot of > attention between 2.2.2 and 3.0, and kde becomes more modular each release. And even between 3.0 and 3.1, it's had attention. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au> <dstone@kde.org> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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