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. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu