Speeding up KDE? Any hints?

[Stephen Dill]

Re: Newbie question

I was reading your discussion and see you use Dapper and Feisty. I am  
trying to learn about installing Dapper for PPC. I get as far as  
getting the Kubutnu start up flash and the components loading with  
the check marks. However after a quick screen change- (goes black and  
text comes up too quick to read) the system stops responding with  
black screen. I am not finding detailed install instructions that are  
for someone like me without a great programming background. Should I  
just stick with my OSX? Am I out of my league? Or can you recommend a  
starting place for a newbie with some curiosity.
Thanks,
Steve Dill

On Jul 15, 2007, at 9:45 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:

> On Sunday 15 July 2007, Robert Tilley wrote:
>> about 28 MB returned.  After closing several tabs in Konqueror,  
>> more came
>> back.  Then I quit Konqueror and even more returned.
>
> Konqueror is a real pain for this kind of thing too.  I find when I  
> combine
> multiple tabs with the flash plugin, sometimes I run into a  
> situation where I
> have to go nuke all Konqueror processes to get my system back to a
> comfortable performance level.  I'm sure there's a bug in there  
> somewhere,
> but I'm too lazy to find and report it.
>
> Since I upgraded to Feisty and KDE 3.5.6, all of this is much worse  
> than it
> used to be on Dapper and 3.5.4 or 3.5.5, whatever it was.  This is  
> not a
> coincidence.  I used to run Debian Sid, and after I upgraded that  
> to KDE
> 3.5.6 I ran into many of the same issues.  3.5.6 was not a good  
> version of
> KDE.
>
>> P.S.  Have to look into adding another 512 MB to my machine.
>
> It will really help, but it shouldn't be strictly necessary.  I  
> still have a
> 512 MB/2.0 GHz box at my house, and it seems to get along fine.  My  
> own is a
> bit faster though, with more RAM, and it gets along better.  RAM  
> seems to
> make a much greater difference than pouring on more gigahertz.   
> Plus I still
> have old hard drives, instead of SATA.
> -- 
> D. Michael McIntyre
>
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