On Sunday, August 28, 2011 08:32 Anton Aylward wrote:
Insomniac said the following on 08/28/2011 08:49 AM:
On Saturday, August 27, 2011 01:29 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?
IMO, 7.3 and 9.3 were the best versions SuSE has ever put out. KDE screwed up
going to KDE4 and all the moronic eye candy garbage and not-intuitive-anymore ways of getting to anything done and taking a *LOT* of control away from the user - it's not much different in look and feel from M$ anymore. Unfortunately it seems Linux in general is going the way of M$, when you come to linux forums or mailing lists and you hear the excuses M$ users used 10 years ago for it not running well on their systems - ie: not enough RAM, reboot to fix it, the 'oh you need the sooper-dooper-most-up-to-date-version of that to work' excuse, ad nausea.
IMNSHO late model kernels are worth using for a number of reasons - fixes, reliability, functionality. Its not about "sooper-dooper-most-up-to-date-version" -itis, but about integrity. As a side effect its also about performance.
I've yet to see the 'performance' boost. The only thing that's made my system stay running fast with 11.3 installed, was that some of my old hardware wore out and simply died and so I bought new and simply upgraded to the best I could afford (still old, btw athlon II X2 240).
KDE4 is much, much better than KDE3.
Says you and some few others. I've yet to see an overwhelming majority of people speaking up and out about it, and I don't mean just in this mailing list either, I mean all over the web.
Much easier, more intuitive, so long as you haven't been brainwashed by some defective desktop manager, perhaps out of Redmond :-) And its faster than KDE3.
Again, says you and some few others. I find it was far more intuitive as it was when it was KDE3. <shrug> <snip> -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.34-12-desktop KDE: 3.5.10 "release 41" 19:26pm up 2 days 20:23, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00 Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -Isaac Asimov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org