Speeding up KDE -- More Help Needed

[Dexter Filmore]

> I don't know if you're wedded to something in Kubuntu but Etch with
> KDE seems faster to me.  I didn't run formal tests because I never
> felt it important.  What I perceive is more important than facts.

I am just off the bus with Kubuntu, I've been running KDE 3.5.4 on Slackware 
11.0 before and have to say it performed noticably better.
Like I said in another post, I usually forgot to suspend virtual machines on 
another desktop before shutting down because I simply forgot they were there.
Now here when I have a WinXP vm in VBox running, everything slows to a crawl.
DVB on Kaffeine with postprocessing and deinterlacing plus some cpu load - 
Kaffeine starts stuttering. 
On Slack I could have VMware, Kaffeine and still have enough juice in this 
Athlon XP 3200+ to encode some mp3.
(If I remember correctly Slackware packs are -march=i486 -mcpu=i686 and the 
multimedia packages like xine all i686 by default.)
Haven't compared to other distros yet, will do when bigger disks are here.

Dex



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