Re: [Sheflug] KDE 2.1 beta 2

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:48:00PM +0000, Richard wrote:
> I've downloaded KDE 2.1 beta 2 and then ftp'ed the RPMs across my
> network to my notebook.
> 
> On a 233MHz machine with 64Mb of RAM it took 30 minutes for KDE 2.1
> to install the 23 RPMs that make up the GUI.
> 
> It's working in front of me now.  Looks very good and seems to be
> stable.  This is only one machine though.  Not tried it on anything
> else.  SuSE 7.0.

	I usually upgrade to the latest debs available. At the moment,
it has been running sort of bleeding edge for the last month or two. It
is a bit slow (kswapd seems to kick-in fairly quickly, but then again,
I don't like dynamic memory allocation in my software :D), I believe due
to more to memory usage than anything else. 2.0 had the same problem. In
my computer at home (K6/266 MHz, 64 Megs) is as fast/useable as it is in
my computer at work (they have the same memory).

	On the other hand, it is very stable as far as I can tell, and
konqueror is an absolute winner. I just don't know how could I have
managed without "gg:" and "dj:" for all these years (for those not in
the knowlegde, "gg:this that" searches for "this that" in google, dj is
the deja.com equivalent and a myriad others. Really handy easy stuff).

	The only annoying thing with kde (and this is debian specific)
is the fact that if you install task-kde, it installs about everything
and his mother. The myriad of kde games, kde toys and all the rest of
it. It also installs kde-office, which has a rather nice presentation
creator (at least it looks flashy enough to me: it does fade screens and
useless crap like that). Real men use FOILTeX, of course :-)

	Regards,
	José
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