On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:18:34PM +1000, Kylie Davies scrawled: > We were also told that things would be better under KDE3 (from KDE2) but this > has been proven wrong. We are told that KDE3.1 will be much better...but > those who have had a go on the development box (a P166 with 32RAM) - have > given up with it - because it is slowwwwwww and all you mainly do - is wait. > Maybe we could get rid of some of the KDE eye candy and the system may become > somewhat faster...do computer users really need a shadow backdrop under their > mouse cursor??? ;) Well, on the (recently-reformatted) dev box, nothing's been pared down (ditto capzilla). We haven't configured it as we would a normal shipping system; that comes later. For now we're just mainly making sure everything works. And, to be fair, capzilla has other issues - like not being able to last through a compile - that do actually have an impact on this. When we disable all the eye candy (and the impact of the shadowed cursor is absolutely trivial, I assure you), it'll get a lot faster. > Oh - and dare i say it - the knoppix german hdd installer - is too > easy...even in German.... not many questions to answer...really a walk in the > park cf other linux installs I have done. And the end result was > perfecto...everything worked including sound! :) At the cost of a reasonably slow and inflexible system, although it is quite nice if you're in a hurry. -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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