(OT) Re: KDE3

[Bob Raymond]

On Wednesday 17 April 2002 2:47 am, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 April 2002 09:26 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:01:13 -0400 Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > > or slower than KDE2x. Running on an AMD Athlon 950 with 384MB RAM
> >
> > If you run this stuff on half that iron, you'd notice a difference. :')
>
> Yep. I could even run Windows on this box ;-)

Windows is actually faster on my box than KDE, if I consider application load 
times.  Comparison:

rig is Athlon 1.4ghz, 512mb SDRAM, Radeon 8500 video, 40GB 7200RPM drive for 
Windows, 13GB 5400RPM drive for Gentoo (I know it's unfair, but my sound card 
is better supported in Windows, so I need the HD for recording).

Windows XP Pro						Gentoo 1.1a, KDE 3.0
boots in 30 secs.						boots in 15 secs.
Mozilla load time 5 secs.				Mozilla load time 10 secs.
Mozilla mail load time 5 secs.			KMail load time 15 secs.

All of Gentoo is optimized from source, and all times are sort of approximate.  
The Windows apps sometimes take less than a second to load.  Of course, Linux 
doesn't get blue screens just because the processor is at 52-53C like 
Windows.

Bob Raymond
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