Linked by Rahul Gaitonde on Thu 15th Jan 2004 06:40 UTC
KDE Around 3 weeks ago, I downloaded the 2nd beta of KDE 3.2 from their FTP site. I've been using this release every day since then. The purpose of my writing this piece is not to highlight KDE 3.2's new features and applications - read the Changelog at KDE's site for that - but to give you a complete picture of how it measures up to its previous versions in terms of everyday use. Does it make me more productive? Is the command line more efficient yet? Or, even better, does it make me use the command line more effectively? Read on...
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wrong system specs?
by O on Thu 15th Jan 2004 14:57 UTC

"The target machine - my only computer - is a Pentium II 266 MHz"

He says he runs XP on it WTF?? I tried XP on my old P2 400MHz before I sold it and it ran miserably (very bad response time, had to wait for the start menu to pop up etc.). Mandrake 9.0+KDE3 ran slow even on my 800MHz linux comp, is KDE 3.2 a LOT faster or does mr Rahul Gaitonde posess the most extraordinary patience?
Perhaps we should chip in for an upgrade for him? ;)