On Saturday, August 27, 2011 02:29:36 PM George OLson wrote:
Ok, next problem. I have an older pc for my kids that was running windows xp on it. It is an old Dell desktop with a dual core (I think) Intel Pentium 4 processor and 256MB of RAM.
I completely removed XP and installed 32bit OS 11.4 and it is now up and running. However, it runs really, really slow. Basically it is unusable. I kind of expected that, but I wanted to try it out anyway. I assume the problem is not enough memory, right?
So what is the best course of action to get it usable for my kids? Is the problem with KDE? Does KDE take up too much RAM to run in the new 4.6? Should I try and downgrade to an earlier version of KDE? If so, how do I get the older KDE packages and install them?
Or is the problem with the whole distribution? I have disks for OS 11.1 and OS 9.3. Should I install one of those instead of 11.4?
What do I need to look at to figure out the source of the problem and figure out how to fix it, if the easy solution is not just downgrading everything?
Dear George, A much better solution is not to use KDE but take one of the lightweight window managers. I like KDE but I regularly use LXDE which is much easier on my machine. I have everything I am using on KDE available with an easy switch. Ctrl Alt <--, in the menu switching to LXDE and of I go. Used other window managers also but I like LXDE best. In Yast, go to software managment, RPM groups and go down until you will see a list of other GUI's. There you will find lightweights like LXDE, XFCEn and under others Icewm etc.. No need to downgrade and if you somewhere along the line decide to put more memory on the machine you are just three keystrokes away from KDE. Regards Constant Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.4 (i586) Kernel: 3.1.0-rc3-1-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.7.00 (4.7.0) 13:52pm up 1:05, 3 users, load average: 1.12, 1.43, 2.06 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org