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Fifteen years of KDE

Fifteen years of KDE

Posted Oct 19, 2011 20:25 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
Parent article: Fifteen years of KDE

I remember that KDE 1 was such a memory hog back in the day. The big improvement in KDE 2 was that it used less memory - but was slow as hell, I went back to KDE 1, then left KDE for good. Of course, "improvements" in GNOME meant that the gnome-panel started to leak memory by the hundreds of MBs, so now I'm back to KDE 3.5 on the work machine. I very much hope it won't be upgraded.

The features I'm using from KDE? There's a panel with taskbar, a workspace selector, konsole - and that's all, the same I used in KDE 1.


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Fifteen years of KDE

Posted Oct 20, 2011 18:58 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Yeah, KDE 1 was fat, but I had 128 MB so I didn't mind! I liked that release!

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