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diimaan
17-03-2005, 08:12 PM
i'm using Mandrake 10.1
my pc config is AMD Athlon 2400+
512 MB DDR RAM
samsung 80 GB 7200 rpm
my system when using linux is memory hungry !
how to tweak the memory settings in mandrake
which s/w to use to tweak memory settings in KDE
im using KDE 3.2
i get the KDE 3.3 from last month digit DVD
how to install it using rpmdrake ! ! !
pradeep_chauhan
17-03-2005, 08:20 PM
The biggest memory tweak is to remove kde and go in for say fluxbox or windo maker.
GNUrag
17-03-2005, 08:27 PM
pradeep, the KDE 3.3 and 3.4 are much better it seems. They have tweaked a lot of components internally. The KDE 3.3 on my system is running on par with other windowmanagers now.. difference is highly visible while using the plastik theme.
pradeep_chauhan
17-03-2005, 08:42 PM
I have KDE 3.3 on my gentoo system and it takes 42M of memory to run compare this with fluxbox which takes 5MB of memory. so i still feel that kde is still a heavy desktop and I only use it to impress firsttime linux guys or a windows guy to show "hum kise se cum nahi"
GNUrag
17-03-2005, 09:01 PM
yeah.. but KDE is KDE... and fluxbox will always remain fluxbox.. its list comparing an elephant with an ant !!
hafees
17-03-2005, 11:58 PM
but KDE is lighter than GNOME right?? KDE loads much faster than GNOME.
diimaan
18-03-2005, 03:12 PM
frndz still i didn't get the answer for how to install the KDE 3.3
i copied the entire folder named KDE 3.3 from digit DVD
it contains 18 files
how to install then
daj123
18-03-2005, 10:14 PM
try this at your own risk:
In the folder where you copied all the RPMs...
rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm
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