Re: Gnome/KDE resources
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:01 -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses
> less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux
> on an older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK.
>
> Now I get the latest Linux Journal and they say in there than Gnome
> uses less resources.
Both desktops have been making huge strides lately in performance and
what not. I hadn't used GNOME/KDE in about a year, but I have given the
1.8 release a whirl and it does seem a lot snappier.
> I tried to remember what it was that I had read about KDE and began
> to think, well maybe it wasn't that KDE used less resources overall
> but that it used less ROM or something. Doesn't matter. My question
> then is, given an older machine that KDE or Gnome can run on, which
> should I install to get better performance?
I still think GNOME/KDE (despite their improvements) are a little bit
too fat for older systems w/out much ram... it's certainly not very
groovy on my old 256M laptop. I generally use openbox, but if you're
looking for something similar to gnome/kde maybe you could try out XFCE.
Like GNOME, it uses the Gtk to render widgets. It was a lot more
responsive on the old Sun boxes at school than the other desktop
environments I tried.
Good luck,
Cameron Matheson
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