Speeding up KDE -- More Help Needed

[Greg Booth]

On 7/17/07, Ted Frater <ted.frater at virgin.net> wrote:
> Greg Booth wrote:
>
> >On 7/17/07, Brendan <mailinglist at endosquid.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Robert Tilley wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Many of the tips on cleaning up memory were extremely helpful.
> >>>
> >>>My Dell Dimension 2350 box has 512 MB.  KDE 3.5.6, KInfoCenter shows about
> >>>6.24 megs free at the moment.  Open apps are:  Konsole (1 tab), a dozen
> >>>Knotes, KInfoCenter (of course), Kate (14 files open), Konqueror (10 tabs),
> >>>Firefox (4 tabs open).
> >>>
> >>>Closing Konqueror immediately freed about 45 MB.  Running Konqueror is
> >>>almost required for validation of web page design.
> >>>
> >>>It's been mentioned that KDE 3.5.6 is worse for memory handling.  Perhaps I
> >>>should downgrade to Dapper?  My first choice would be to avoid buying
> >>>another half-meg memory.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Are you serious? Jeez man, you make no sense. Downgrading is on the table, but
> >>not buying some cheap memory? Why not upgrade to 3.5.7?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Anyone tried Xubuntu ?? Heard it's made for older/low end machines like that.
> >
> >I know it's not KDE but hey...
> >
> >
> >
>
> In currntly evaluating Xubuntu, on a dell 8000 1 gig with the 1600 by
> 1200 15 in screen. 512 mb ram.
> Much fsterhan the normal Ubuntu package.
> why? because ive consistently found the smaller install  of software
> works better on the type of laptop I use.
>  these ar p3 850 thinkpads with 512 mb ram and high vend graphics and
> screens.
>  To give you one exampleof the fastest browser out there,  for me that is!!
> I have a thinkpad  p3 500mh  with 512 mb ram running dos 6.22 and win
> for wgs 3.1/ Netscape 3 as the  browser.
> on an 8mb broadband isp.
>  Its faster than any of your later  browsers for email , text and 90% of
> web sites.
> Ted Frater
>  Dorset UK

Have you tried Opera on any of those ? It's got a much smaller
footprint I believe.