KDE 3.2 review

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:38:57 -0500
"Robert E.Raymond" <rraymond at earthlink.net> wrote:

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> On Thursday 15 January 2004 14:23, Tim Wunder wrote:
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> > This is not the first time I've read a piece touting the speed of KDE
> > 3.2. Perhaps certain list members' prejudice against KDE because of it
> > being bloated and slow will be revised to it just being bloated...
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> It's really fast here... on both machines.  Everything's immediate... Windows 
> doesn't even come close.  Then again, this one's an Athlon XP 1700+ with 1.5 
> GB of RAM and the other is an Athlon64 3000+ with 512 MB...
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Just a side note.  I ran 3.2 for a few days on my 256MB machine, and it was not noticeably faster than the prior release, so I would think that you need lots of memory to make the claim "bloated but fast."

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Collins - Denver Area - 
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