kdedevelopers.org — I decided to boot my Thinkpad X60 with "mem=256M maxcpus=1", logged into KDE 4 and set the power saving policy to "Powersave", which throttles the CPU to 1Ghz and locks it there. And then I used KDE 4 some, started Konqueror, browsed about a bit, configured a few things with System Settings, started Kopete and chatted a little.
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tempusrobDec 11, 2007
Well, if the HDD manufacturers hadn't hijacked GB to mean 1000 MB instead of 1024 MB we wouldn't have to use the "stupid" proper suffixes.
dnasthegreatDec 11, 2007
Look up Megahertz myth. A 400 Mhz G4 isn't necessarily comparable to a 400 Mhz Intel processor. Things like pipelining, RISC vs CISC (especially on older machines... nowadays RISC-like stuff is in Intel's processors), instructions per cycle, etc. make a difference as well --- not just the clock rate.
gmorganDec 11, 2007
Windows isn't suited for IT professionals either as a desktop or as a server. Most I know of get routinely annoyed by the lack of a decent CLI. Of course cygwin alleviates this problem to a fair extent but you can hardly say it looks good that you have to emulate Unix to make Windows usable.
tempest261Dec 11, 2007
I *WANT* to use KDE 4. I think it it's gorgeous. The issue is that I simply can't navigate through those damn menus. And what the f**k does "Konqueror, Kompete, Korn" mean? If anyone is being a fanboy, it's you guys who are defending KDE's ridiculous naming scheme.
rhino2Dec 14, 2007
SURE!
burtcokainJan 21, 2008
Yep, for sure. I've tried running 2k with Firefox/Thunderbird on a 350 Mhz K6, with 256 Mb RAM (A system I gave to a friend). It's very slow, and this was the (short) era where mac's actually had faster processors than PCs. The mac gets blown away by a 1 Ghz PIII though.- it's possibly equivalent to a PIII-600 running 2k in terms of app responsiveness/usability for basic stuff.