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How is the speed in 3.1?
How well does KDE 3.1 perform compared to KDE 3.0 as far as UI responsivness and load times? I have an older machine that barely runs KDE 3.0. I would rather not upgrade to 3.1 if it is significantly slower. Should I upgrade?
sure
It's faster than kde 3.0.5a for me. I'm currently using a K6-3/400 256 mbs. Ram Geforce 2 MX, running Debian Woody 3.0. It loads an app. like Kwrite in about 2 seconds., and Konqueror in 4 seconds. not bad
excuse my bad english.
--{@ Ryo99.
similar, with some areas faster
it's pretty much the same speed-wise, with some notable exceptions including certain parts of Konqueror and KMail (among others, i'm sure). the real key to making KDE usable on older systems is turning off unecessary items such as wallpapers, icon effects, fancy widget themes (try lite-v3 and web window deco for a snappy combo), file thumbnails in konqueror and the file dialog, etc..
Hi,
if you have an older machine you should use gcc 3.2 and glibc 2.3 It gives, especially KDE, a big performance boost.
I don't know which Distro you are using, but if you are a experienced usere you can try gentoo. You can keep gentoo very slick and your system won't have to use much CPU time with usless stuff.
By the way: Yes KDE 3.1 is faster then the 3.0.x release. Even if you only use the old compiler and glibc.
Dim
Thanks for the tips! By the way, I use Redhat 8.0 and Mandrake 9.0 on a 300 MHz AMD system w/ 128 MB.
Hi,
I think they already use glibc 2.3 and gcc 3.2
Dim
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