XFCE in press

[Edscott Wilson García]

On Mon 04 Mar 2002 02:01, you wrote:
> > > While I respect KDE and Gnome, is there really any comparison WRT
> > > speed?  Let me tell you, on my laptop (64MB RAM) there is simply no
> > > contest, and KDE 2.x is simply too slow to be usable.
> >
> > I have 48MB RAM 150MHz old 586, and I can not even run KDE2 application
> > without loooooooooooooooooooooooooong waiting.
>
> I am (sometimes) running KDE 2.2.2 on a PII-350 /w 196 meg RAM, and the
> performance ain't what I would call 'really good'. Of course it is a little
> faster than KDE 1 or GNOME 1.4 + nautilus, but it's not at all what I want
> for a convenient desktop system. Anyhow, having a XFCE that looks like
> Solaris-CDE, what do I need KDE for? :]

To benchmark against xfce performance 

;-)

Edscott