Speeding up KDE -- More Help Needed

[Ted Frater]

Greg Booth wrote:

>On 7/17/07, Ted Frater <ted.frater at virgin.net> wrote:
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>>Greg Booth wrote:
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>>>On 7/17/07, Brendan <mailinglist at endosquid.com> wrote:
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>>>>On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Robert Tilley wrote:
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>>>>>Many of the tips on cleaning up memory were extremely helpful.
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>>>>>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).
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>>>>>Closing Konqueror immediately freed about 45 MB.  Running Konqueror is
>>>>>almost required for validation of web page design.
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>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?
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>>>Anyone tried Xubuntu ?? Heard it's made for older/low end machines like that.
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>>>I know it's not KDE but hey...
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>>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
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>Have you tried Opera on any of those ? It's got a much smaller
>footprint I believe.
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Thanks for your reply. Annd yes I should have mentioned it!! I use Opera 
on both!!
3.6 with Win 3.1 and 9 with Xubuntu.

Ted.