On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Vahis <waxborg@gmail.com> wrote:
Clayton wrote:
my experience with KDE 4.1 - 3 is that it's gotten a lot more efficient recently. kwin & plasma used to run away with my CPU frequently, but that's a lot better now.
I'd agree. I'm running KDE 4.3.1 on an EeePC Netbook (1005HA-H) with 2GB RAM and it's fine. I can watch full screen video, and have Compiz turned on with no real noticeable impact on performance. Admitedly though, Gnome does run slightly better than KDE4.3.1 on this machine.... but only marginally... not enoguh to make a real difference in day-to-day stuff.
I'm hoping to try out 11.2 on this netbook :-)
C.
I've been running 11.0 on EeePC 900/1GB RAM for about a year. I installed 11.2 next to it on an SD card (dual boot) to see if I will upgrade and install it on the internal 16 GB SSD. So far it looks good and I wonder if I will change over even before the official release, it's so great :)
11.0 runs KDE 3.5 and 11.2 of course 4.3. Both are fine and I can do all those things above, too. In addition I connect with FreeNX to my home server as well as I mount the home server's disks over sshfs.
That way I can listen to the music on the server with Amarok and watch video from there using smplayer most of the time, but also vlc and such. I cut out the commercials and convert to 500 bitrate to be able to watch them over UMTS.
I use FreeNX, ProjectX and HandBrake on the server to do those things. Then I mount over sshfs and just enjoy films while waiting for customers in my cab.
In case that sounds too weird I thought I'd indicate I had the same usecase in mind, albeit a different context - NX access from a netbook using minimal USB boot. I think slitaz (<30MB) http://www.slitaz.org/ is the smallest that will work, but openSUSE-LXDE (>400MB). Although the slitaz footprint will expand once the NX packages are installed on the USB. I suppose all these uses and LXDE are pointing to uses for something like an openSUSE version of thinstation (http://www.thinstation.org/). HTH anyone else contemplating such use cases. Mark
I'm using Huawei 169G to connect, my bandwith is 1 mbps.
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