[ltp] Redhat 7.0 to 7.2: a bit of history please?

[Harry Mangalam]

Another vote of confidence for KDE.  I think konq is very well designed and I like the kio subsystem and ability to use of netscape plugins.  The 2.2.1 version was substantially faster than than the
first 2.2 release and memory use seemed to decrease as well (2.2.2 should be be better yet).  Looking forward to 3.0, but I agree with the sentiment that if at all possible, stay with small fast tools
that can be chained together as needed.  Works at the component level as well.

Running on [headless :( ] 770X / 300MHz / 256M, it's quite snappy, except for Konq starting up.

hjm

Tod Harter wrote:
> 
> Well, I have to agree that too many people are trying to device "swiss army
> knife" applications as I would put it, but the CONCEPT of a component
> framework isn't necessarily all bad. Konqy itself doesn't really do a HUGE
> amount, it just relies on "kparts" for various specific kinds of services.
> For instance the way you can browse ANY sort of URL is not specific to any
> one KDE program, its a feature of the "kio" subsystem (you can program a
> slave to let kio based programs access any type of data source via a "URL").
> 
> I guess I have mixed feelings about the whole thing. The truth is that 96
> megs is really not enough ram these days for a fully featured modern desktop
> environment :(.
> 
> Personally I like KDE better than Gnome though, it seems to be somewhat more
> memory efficient. My 380D with 96 megs and Mandrake 8 doesn't seem
> particularly slow, BUT you do have to be careful to limit the services you
> run. Web browsers these days all seem to hog ram like its going out of style.
> Mozilla has improved a lot lately, but with 96 megs its still pushing the
> limits.
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