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Re: {OT} Interesting view on Windows/Linux+Wine

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.com> Mar 10, 2006
• 681 views

Vincent wrote:

> Mandrake 10.0 used KDE 3.2 I believe. I think KDE 3.5 is basically the same
> except for maybe QT and K bug fixes and minor speed improvements. It could be
> that Mandrake came with an optimized default KDE desktop. There must be alot
> of things I can do to improve speed if you can get smooth performance on a old
> computer. But I have read online that it is recommended to have 384 to 512 MB
> of RAM and a 800 MHz to 1 GHz processor to use the latest Gnome and KDE
> desktops
> at decent speeds. But if it isn't great on my machine then something might be
> wrong.
> 
> I don't see why AMD chips would be slower on Linux but my computer is a
> Pentium
> 4 Northwood.
> 
> > Edmund Burke: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to
> > do nothing."
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Vincent

Vincent:

  The first thing I would do is see if you have the best or
  latest video driver for your video-card from ATI WEB Site. 
  The one that came with your distro may have bugs.

Bernie

My files in archive:
WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API 

Can be downloaded here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan