On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 09:03, Per Jessen
Istvan Gabor wrote:
- KDE4 was slow compared to KDE3, much slower (I have only 0.5-1GB RAMs in my systems)
I really don't like to counter that with "buy more RAM", but today desktop systems with 1Gb or less are probably outdated. Up until recently, I also had a few elderly office systems with only 1Gb and KDE3, but with a few office documents, office, browser, acrobat etc, 1Gb for a desktop just isn't efficient any more.
The gotcha there is.. despite the relatively low prices on RAM (You can easily get 16GB of DDR3 for under 90 Euro), these old systems are using old RAM that is obsolete. If you want to buy it new, it will cost you big time if a show even has any in stock. I'm sure that just about anyone who has done any upgrade in the past few years, has RAM laying about in a cupboard or drawer somewhere that they'd give away for free if only someone would ask. 1GB is simply not enough to run a modern OS. If you have to run an old system with severely limited hardware resources, you should be running an OS that is contemporary with the hardware instead of trying to run the latest and greatest release and yelling when that new OS is slow on significantly old hardware, or has features the old obsolete hardware cannot handle. You can run the latest openSUSE on a 386 with a 387 math co-processor, and KDE3 and 4 will work... slowly, but it'll work. You can boot Linux on a microcontroller. It will take 6 hours to boot, but you can do it. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. A simple bump from 1GB to 2 GB seems to make all the difference in the world with older/slower computers. I run openSUSE 12.1 with KDE4.8.1 on an Asus EEE 1005HA (1.6 GHZ ARM CPU with 2GB of ram and an Intel video card) and it runs just fine with more than acceptable speed for what it is. Drop back to 1GB and the system slows to a glacial crawl. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org