On Saturday 21 January 2006 09:52, Rex Dieter wrote:
Lamar Owen wrote:
The 3.5 update didn't really break much. However, you will have difficulty with things that use the kdesu utility, since, at least with the latest updates, su is asking a second question (about the security context) and that hangs kdesu hard
Ack. I'll have to look into that.
Many thanks... and many thanks for the redhat EL4 packages, too.
KDE 3.5 is slower, unfortunately, so you don't want to do this on an old machine; the machine needs to be recent and needs to have more than 256MB RAM for sure. On one machine, going from 256MB to 512MB doubled its apparent speed; the further increase to 1GB added another 33% or so on some tasks.
Provided ample RAM, I've personally found kde 3.5 to be subjectively faster (partly due to pkg optimization tweaking).
Kmail for one definitely feels slower, and the startup time IS longer. This on a Pentium M 1.7GHz laptop with 1GB RAM and a pretty fast 60GB hard drive. I say this having used the previous KDE's on CentOS through the KDE-Redhat repository, 3.3, 3.4 and now 3.5. I literally started using 3.4's kmail one morning, shutdown kmail, yum updated, restarted machine, brought up KDE, and it felt slower. Started Kontact/kmail, and it too felt slower, although not by much. Of course, there might have been speedups since those initial public 3.5 packages that I haven't noticed.