Speeding up KDE -- More Help Needed

[Chris Miller]

if(speed<speed_needed)
    install(LINUX.Gentoo);

On 7/18/07, Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 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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