Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2740 mails)

["Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 13:23, Larry Stotler <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:23 PM, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It strikes me that the people driving KDE 4 are more interested in "Gee
> > Whiz" features, than function.  I watched a KDE 4 demo last year and I
> > couldn't believe what was being promoted could be considered an improvement.
> >  Judging from what I've been reading here, I wasn't far off the mark.
>
> Keep in mind that the openSUSE KDE devs are just a part of the overall
> KDE team.  While I have also questioned the direction of KDE4, it
> seems that we will be stuck with it and with trying to get the useful
> KDE3 features added in with all the new "Mac/Vista" "features".  I do
> think that some of the devs haven't used a Pentium 3 system in a long
> time and don't realize how slow KDE4 is without the newer CPUs and
> graphics cards.  It's almost the way Macs went.  You have to have a
> specific card for Quartz Extreme and AGP for Core Image(which is a
> technical limitation of the PCI bus anyway).
>
> My 2 laptops are a Thinkpad A22p P3/1Ghz/256MB(has a bad RAM slot, but
> would max at 512MB) and a Thinkpad X21 P3/700Mhz/384MB(Max RAM).  The
> A22p has a Rage 128 based video chip and the X21 has a Mobility chip
> in it.

You can't expect the latest software to keep on running on older
machines forever. Maybe keeping 3.5 on those machines is the best
idea? I don't think that Windows Vista or Mac OS X will run "great" on
either of those machines...
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