On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
Are you sure 11.3 is the best choice of "upgrade"? Soon as 11.0 support expired I "upgraded" my 24/7 box to 11.2/KDE3 (other than the newer versions of K3B & Amarok). AFAICT, nothing improved, while CPU usage jumped, no sound from system speaker, & absent ability to write with K3B to used RW DVDs are the only degradations I've noticed. OTOH, 11.3 uses KMS, which is an infant technology with alpha/beta downstream effects on Xorg. Depending on your hardware, it may pay to skip 11.3. Best to check your video hardware against bug reports and Factory mailing list threads before deciding on your "upgrade" path.
Actually, no, I'm not. That's why I want to test 11.3 with KDE3. As for 11.2, I'm willing to bet part of the problem was with the Qt4 additions that made 11.0's KDE3 somewhat flakey in some ways(like how I managed to lose K3b from my menu.....). Harware-wise, I don't think 11.3 offers anything useful. I'm only using an nVidia 6200 and my machine is circa 2008(overclocked tho). However, I do want to update firefox from 3.6.3, which I must have either missed the update or something, or even to 4.0 when it's released. I wasn't pleased with 11.1's KDE3(or 11.1 really. It was released too soon IMO). I never installed KDE3 on 11.2. Never got around to it. KDE4/11.3 on older hardware has proven it's not a good idea, so I'm hoping to see how well KDE3 works in comparision. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help@opensuse.org