On 6/16/2014 10:20 AM, James Knott wrote:
On 2014-06-16 11:00, Per Jessen wrote:
For KDE3 1Gb was plenty, but KDE4 needs a bit more.
My old mom board worked well with KDE3, but really bogged down with "Linux Vista" (KDE4). Even with an Intel Core i7 CPU (4 cores & hyperthreading) and 8 GB of memory, performance could be better with KDE4.
There is something else wrong with that machine if it has problems with KDE4. I have an old Core 2 Duo laptop, with only 3gig, and it is more than acceptable with KDE4, even with a good amount of the Bling turned on, using the stock AMD Radeon using community drivers. Its quite snappy, programs launch quickly, and I can even run VMware and achieve acceptable performance in virtual machines. Its still using almost a gig for disk cache and buffers and hasn't touched swap at all. In fact, it works better and faster than the OS it was delivered with. (I still have that hard disk it was delivered with still with the old OS on it). After way more years than it should have taken, and after many years of bitching, KDE4 is really quite fast and outperforms the old KDE3 in every way. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org