How did you install a current KDE on Redhat 6.2? And if you did not install a current KDE, then it's not a reasonable comparison. KDE has majorly changed since then. I'm intrigued, but I don't think it's the kernel. -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreenet.org On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Sam MacDonald wrote: > I installed Redhat 6.2 and KDE is at least 200% faster then on Redhat > 8.0. It just runs smooth even with 64 mb RAM it out performs the Redhat > 8.0 install. > I have the installs on different hard disk drives > Hitachi 5. Gig (DMA/ATA-33 [Ultra] 12 ms - 4000 rpm - 512 KB) > IBM Travelstar 5 Gig (DMA/ATA-33 [Ultra] 12.7 ms - 4200 rpm - 512 KB) > The IBM is a little faster but that would not effect the speed of X > Windows enough. > I could swap the disks and put 6.2 on the slower disk and the results > would be the same. > > If I could I would go to the beer meeting and show you all it isn't the > hardware. I've done this on 2 desktops and 3 laptops, every time it's > the same thing. Redhat 6.2 is faster then 8.0 on older hardware. > > I would like to do the same with Slackware and Debian to see if the > kernel versions cause the slow down. From 2.X to 2.4. If it's the > version of KDE so be it, I believe it's the Kernel changes. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list