Beta 8.10 released

[Valter Mura]

Il venerdì 3 ottobre 2008 11:55:20 Steve Lamb ha scritto:
> Valter Mura wrote:
> > But my question is: what about the old machines like mine? I have a P IV
> > 32bit 2.8 Ghz with 768 MB of RAM, and a video card of 128 MB, and on KDE
> > 3.5.10 is quite stable.
> >
> > If I attempt an upgrade, will it work? This is my fear, Intrepid will
> > ship only KDE 4.
>
>     My game machine (the one with the funky color combo) is an AMD 2800+
> (comparable to the P4 2.8Ghz), 2Gb of RAM and a 128Mb video card.  4.1.1 is
> perfectly fine on it.  Well, compiz-decorator doesn't start up for some
> reason but I am not impressed by compiz enough to leave it on more than 5-6
> minutes at a time.  The rest of it is smooth and sweet.

I downloaded a live cd of Kubuntu Intrepid and ran it on boot.

The system started without big problems. It's not so fast as 3.5.x, obviously, 
but my suspect is that I could have problems with my graphics card, which is 
bad and slow (ATI 9200SE 128MB).

Regards
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Valter
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