Gil de Too Rhett, Butler wrote:

> Nexa wanna uttr da:
>

??

>>
>> KDE is still as slow as a frozen turd sliding down a horizontal plane.
>
> That's a good metaphor, though I'd reckon it implies something in
> your installation is not quite right...
>
> As a fine -- and hence relative -- rule of auricular, just have this
> lookup upon your grave: if/when it runs/ran Win95/8 what was the
> actual pace? If under KDE you're not twice as fast then you're in
> for checking where/what/when/how you shot the foot in yourself.
> (mind you, without KDE it could be insanely faster, but I know
> what it is, one of my family decks are still using it)
>
> Or it'd be your video card/chip memory is specially dying for the
> occasion?

My 120Mhurts pentiflop ran 95 a lot faster on 64MB.

Checks feet.

Two, no holes.

Seems like I don't know how to use the weapon.

DNA

Franklin wrote:

> ... older hardware is "usually" supported with the vanilla kernel
> without jumping through hoops. It's the new hardware that generally
> causes fits.

Agreed, though I feel I've been very lucky (and admittedly very
conservative in hardware puchases). I most recently have been
assembling a new music workstation on an HP Proliant with an Athlon64
CPU and 2GB RAM. (Slackware-10.2; don't know if I'm up to trying
Slamd64 for the music workstation, which I consider rather sacred)

The only hardware "glitch" I've run into on this system is with the
graphics controller ("ATI Radeon Express 200"), though X runs fine on it
with the vesa driver (at 1600x1200, which is quite near minimum for
working with audio). I'm still working with it, though to see what I
can improve. (perhaps bit depth, etc.)

> I have no idea what the OP really means by "slow" so I am left to my
> own imagination.

I believe he meant "slow as a frozen turd sliding down a horizontal
plane." :-)

> I might go out on a limb here though and state that CPU speed "will"
> have an impact on kernel compile time.

I wouldn't argue back ...

>> Linux users (myself included) have told them that Linux runs just fine
>> on old hardware that is tossed as "old junk" by Windows users. ...
>
> Linux yes. KDE no.

Agreed, though the computer my grandparents use with KDE probably pushes
the envelope a little.

> many people ... think that a DE like KDE will also run "great"
> on old hardware that XP will not run well on because it's "linux",
> which I do not feel is true.

We're in agreement here. Even my grandparents' system cannot be claimed
to run KDE "great". I imagine it probably runs KDE "better" than it
would a current version of Windows, but I have to admit that I have no
experience whatsoever with any version of Windows near "current".

>> My grandparents' computer, for example, is an old 200MHz system, with
>> 48MB RAM. It runs Linux/KDE (Slackware-10.0), ...
>
> Like I said before - slow is in the mind of the beholder. Also
> depends on what you run.

Agreed in most cases. My grandparents spend most of their time with a
single web browser window open, or my grandmother will be playing a
game, or chatting in Gaim. The browser is the most intensive of their
computer activities.

> I still think that more ram will help with X and KDE while CPU will
> help with the OP's complaint regarding slow kernel compile times.

Agreed, and in the absence of improving either hardware component,
refraining from compiling kernels from within X/KDE will help both.
:-)

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Genome wrote:

> Checks feet.
> Two, no holes.
> Seems like I don't know how to use the weapon.

I don't recall ever nominating anything for a modquote, but this one
sure gets my vote! :-)

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Systems and Network analyst Concordia University
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:02:07 +0000, Genome wrote:

> KDE is still as slow as a frozen turd sliding down a horizontal plane.

That should eventually get quite fast, as the friction of sliding will
melt the ice on the bottom of the turd, and it should really pick up steam
for a while. Eventually, though, when the turd itself begins to melt,
things will get ugly.

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On 2006-01-21, Dan C <youmustbejoking@invalid.lan> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:02:07 +0000, Genome wrote:
>
>> KDE is still as slow as a frozen turd sliding down a horizontal plane.
>
> That should eventually get quite fast, as the friction of sliding will
> melt the ice on the bottom of the turd, and it should really pick up steam
> for a while. Eventually, though, when the turd itself begins to melt,
> things will get ugly.
>

Please take this topic to one of the following, appropriate newgroups..

alt.fan.bill.nye.the.science.guy
alt.mad.science

ken

Dan C <youmustbejoking@invalid.lan> writes:

> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:02:07 +0000, Genome wrote:
>
>> KDE is still as slow as a frozen turd sliding down a horizontal plane.
>
> That should eventually get quite fast, as the friction of sliding will
> melt the ice on the bottom of the turd, and it should really pick up steam
> for a while. Eventually, though, when the turd itself begins to melt,
> things will get ugly.

Such a juicy (not to say steamy) piece of analysis must surely be a
modquote????? :-)


Happy St. Agnes Day!

atb


Glyn
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Dan C wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:02:07 +0000, Genome wrote:
>
>> KDE is still as slow as a frozen turd sliding down a horizontal plane.
>
> That should eventually get quite fast, as the friction of sliding will
> melt the ice on the bottom of the turd, and it should really pick up steam
> for a while. Eventually, though, when the turd itself begins to melt,
> things will get ugly.
>

Ah.. but you missed the part about the horizontal plane.

DNA