Oh dear. On running an apt-get upgrade the other evening for my Debian workstation, something weird happened with the package dependencies and my nice window manager KDE disappeared. Yep, the packages were actually deleted! Guess I wasn’t really paying attention when it gave the summary of what it was doing, d’oh!
I actually like KDE rather a lot, at home at least, ‘cos it is good for the BOFH-let (see definition of BOFH and consider a BOFH-let as a BOFH in training) to use. So, I changed my Debian sources list to include Unstable in addition to Testing and that eventually pulled in KDE3, which is exceptionally shiny. See the KDE3 screenshot page for an idea of what it looks like. I’ll stick a screenshot of my setup on here later.
The thing is, I had previously considered trying to upgrade from KDE2 to KDE3, but didn’t want to mess around with the packages too much – the above faux pas kind-of forced my hand, it seems.
Prefer Gnome myself – 2.4 seems faster and less klunky than KDE 3.x that comes with mandrake..
PermalinkGNOME is OK, I suppose, but KDE3 looks great – if you’ve plenty of RAM and a reasonable processor. It is my ‘Hey, look, isn’t Linux great …’ demo thing. Although Knoppix is probably the best thing to give people to try out …
PermalinkDepends upton the theme etc I guess. I still find GNOME easier to get one with, but then I like Mac OS (9 and X) which prob explains why I’ve got a panther theme on my GNOME 😉
I’ve got a 800mhz Pentium IIIm with 512MB ram, maybe it’s not enough or GNOME isn’t as slow compared to KDE anymore, or maybe GNOME plays better with my X11 drivers….
Tried KNOPPIX on the same machine and I did consider running this as my O/S, but never got around to doing a HD install and I lost my USB key where my home dir was …
Ah well back to meddling with Alex’s code he wrote while he was here. Darn users, wanting upgraded functionality 🙂
Permalink[I’ve got a 800MHz Pentium III with 512MB RAM]
KDE with all the shiny effects works very nicely on my P-IV 2.4GHz with 1GB RAM … 😉
Permalinkhrrrmph
yeah I know, KDE’s getting bloated. Why the heck do we all need 3GHz machines exactly?
NONE of my servers have >1.8Ghz (and thats a dual PIII 900mhz) and lot are much much less.
All I need is a little word processing, email, web browing, and ability to run a few editors etc.
(remembers when 25mhz was fast, and you could run X11/Oracle quite reasonably thankyou – Ok not Intel, but PA-risc)
Permalinkremembers when 25mhz was fast
OK, let’s not turn this into a Monty Python-style exchange …
“25MHz? You were lucky, lad – I had to program an entire database using twigs and stones …”
“Twigs and stones? Huh, luxury! I had create an entire operating systems using dust …”
🙂
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