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Re: Good and Bad
by mixx on Sunday 30/Mar/2008, @03:15

"modern rich-people?" 800Mhz machines are out of the shelves since year 2000,
and 2,5-3,5 Ghz semprons aren't modern or expensive machines too.

Anyway, on a <1Ghz machines nobody would suggest to use kde3 too, if you
really want to put a desktop there go for something really light, as xfce or
other really minimal windows managers (damn small linux?).

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Re: Good and Bad
by Morty on Sunday 30/Mar/2008, @03:41

Nonsens, KDE both 3 and 4 runs just fine on <1GHz machines. The eeePC are prof of that.

Running something so called "light" gives you nearly noting, it's an illusion. You still have to run applications, and the lighter alternatives does not provie a comprehensive application suite as KDE[1].

When you begin starting applications like browsers, emailclients, filemanagers and terminalwindows[2] the gain the lighter alternative gave you are more or less gone. As long as you don't exclusively use console applications that is, but since XFce are a GUI/DE you are supposed to use it as such.

[1]. You may end up running KDE applications anyway. Nothing wrong with that, but the 'it's lighter' argument are void.
[2]. Konsole with several tabs open are proven to use less resources than the same number of xterm windows

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Re: Good and Bad
by yman on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @08:00

I used KDE 3 on a laptop with 486 MHz processor and 256 MB RAM. It ran fine.

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Re: Good and Bad
by renoX on Wednesday 09/Apr/2008, @02:30

>"modern rich-people?" 800Mhz machines are out of the shelves since year 2000,

Not true: the EEE PC is underclocked to 600MHz..

>Anyway, on a <1Ghz machines nobody would suggest to use kde3 too

If this was true (and I don't think that this is the case), then it would be an indicator that KDE needs to be improved: a desktop environment shouldn't be resource hungry or more precisely should be configurable to use a minimum amount of CPU and memory.
I remember having a *snappy* desktop with BeOS on a Celeron333 PC, and it was a normal environment not a stripped down one.

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