Cron/Xwindows

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 11:16 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Cron/Xwindows
> 
> 
> Just to pick one point here:
> 
>...
> As an example, and an example of the inefficiency of 
> XWindows, I recently 
> upgraded my system from a 500MHz, 312M system with a 16M 
> video card to a 
> 1200MHz, 512M and Radeon 8000.  Performance of KDE on the new 
> hardware is 
> roughly equivalent to performance of Windows95 on the old - 
> roughly a 3x 
> hardware factor.
Two points:
1) you're confusing XWindows with the Window manager. XWindows
is very fast and efficient. KDE is not.

2) I suspect your version of KDE is badly messed up.

ok three points

3) Comparing a current KDE with Win95 is equivalent to comparing
Win95 to WinXP. But I agree KDE needs speeding up. I'm running
3.0 on my laptop which also has NT on it. I can tell you I can begin
using KDE faster than I can Windows. I've timed it.