OT desktops

[Leon Goldstein]

Rick Sivernel wrote inter alia:

>  Just some observation on 2 desktops KDE 3.1 & xfce 3.18.x.  I bought two new
>hard drives a week or so back when CompUSA had a special till they are gone, 2
>250 gig hard drive @$99 each. 7200 rpms. Well this week I reinstalled Suse 9.0 on
>them and used kde to just setup things til I got going. What a pig it is. My
>machine is a P III 533 mHz Coppermine with 750+ meg of memory, with KDE you would
>have thought it only had 64K. I waited waited, waited, sometimes the stuff never
>seemed to start. So quickly I got xfce on, run lickty split, life is good again.
>
Hmm...  Did you check hdparm to make sure your new drives are achieving 
ATA100 (or better)?
I'm getting about 25 seconds start up times for KDE on my Compaq 
Presario wih an AMD K6-III+ @ 500 mHz , 384 MB, and a Promise PCI ATA100 
card running a WD 80 GB Jumbo.  I did a trial install of FreeBSD 5.3 on 
the same box (using an old Maxtor ATA100 20 GB drive) and KDE 3.3 starts 
a bit faster than with Libranet 2.8.1.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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