[ale] whats better about KDE?

[Chris Ricker]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Geoffrey wrote:

> Just did a little test on a brand new install of SuSE 8.1  KDE is 3.0.3, 
> Gnome is 2.0
> 
> Following login,

what login program? a dm or on vc, then running startx?

> It may be more a memory issue then cpu, as the previous machines were at 
> 128 mb.

It's primarily a library loading issue -- Linux is very slow at loading
libs.... If you play with the prelink stuff (assuming you've got a new
enough glibc / ld / binutils) it'll shave some time off, though it does
better w/ C libs (gnome) than C++ (kde).

later,
chris
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