KDE on Slackware

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xastor

Beginner

Posts: 4

Sunday, June 15th 2003, 10:36pm

KDE on Slackware

Hi!

My system has the following characteristics :
* Athlon 1700 cpu
* 256 ddram

I recently installed Slackware (vectorlinux actually, but it's the same story) on my system. The one thing I immediately noticed (the most import thing too

) is that KDE is unbelievably fast on slackware. I almost fell off my chair :p Until recently I'd been running mandrake for a year or so, and this speed was absolutely beyoung my expectations.. I tried anything to get it this fast on mandrake! Things I tried :
* Cutting down on services load (removing un-needed services)
* Compiling a custom kernel optimized for my processor
* Using a custom startkde script
* Moving away my .kde directory (inspired by windows registry problems :p)
All these things had some result, but never a very noticable/impressive one.

I'm searching for reasons now, to explain this difference in speed.. I'm running the same configuration now, than I was on mandrake (nat/dhcpd, httpd, ftpd, sshd). What could be the reason for this dramatic change in speed? Things I noticed :
* Konqueror starts in less than a second, sometimes not even a half one
* Kde on itself start up in about 10 seconds or less (it used to be 20-30 on mdk)

Is it because slackware has less bloat?
Is it because there was something wrong with my mandrake installation the whole time? can someone else who ran the both, confirm this?

greetings,
xastor.

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Shoikan

Beginner

Posts: 25

Monday, June 16th 2003, 3:18pm

Patrick (the Slack maintainer) loves lean code and a lean distro. So, everything in slack is pretty damn lean. Nothing you don't really need is running. Also, everything is run as it's meant to by the ones writing the software. No tools made by Mandrake et al bloating it. This comes at a price of course.

But believe it or not, you can actually make things run even faster! Just rebuild the QT and KDE packages with all the optimisations, and you'll earn another 10-20% speed....

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Mystilleef

Beginner

Posts: 46

Tuesday, June 17th 2003, 11:32am

Errr...Have you heard of Gentoo? KDE runs fastest on Gentoo by default amongst all the Linux distros. No, I'm not lying. :shock:

Regards,

Mystilleef

KDE Seeker.

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xastor

Beginner

Posts: 4

Friday, June 20th 2003, 4:16pm

i'll check gentoo out for sure, as soon as I get my new disk :p i'm kinda hesitant to run it as a server.. not sure if it's as rockstable as I would want it to be..

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Mystilleef

Beginner

Posts: 46

Friday, June 20th 2003, 10:12pm

As far as I'm concerned, it is stable...

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Original von xastor

i'll check gentoo out for sure, as soon as I get my new disk :p i'm kinda hesitant to run it as a server.. not sure if it's as rockstable as I would want it to be..

I've run Gentoo's unstable ports for over six months now. I'm yet to come accross any problems. This goes to say Gentoo's stable ports, preferable for your server, should be rock solid.

Regards,

Mystilleef

KDE Seeker.

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