Speeding up KDE -- More Help Needed

[Greg Booth]

On 7/17/07, Brendan <mailinglist at endosquid.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Robert Tilley wrote:
> > Many of the tips on cleaning up memory were extremely helpful.
> >
> > My Dell Dimension 2350 box has 512 MB.  KDE 3.5.6, KInfoCenter shows about
> > 6.24 megs free at the moment.  Open apps are:  Konsole (1 tab), a dozen
> > Knotes, KInfoCenter (of course), Kate (14 files open), Konqueror (10 tabs),
> > Firefox (4 tabs open).
> >
> > Closing Konqueror immediately freed about 45 MB.  Running Konqueror is
> > almost required for validation of web page design.
> >
> > It's been mentioned that KDE 3.5.6 is worse for memory handling.  Perhaps I
> > should downgrade to Dapper?  My first choice would be to avoid buying
> > another half-meg memory.
>
> Are you serious? Jeez man, you make no sense. Downgrading is on the table, but
> not buying some cheap memory? Why not upgrade to 3.5.7?
>

Anyone tried Xubuntu ?? Heard it's made for older/low end machines like that.

I know it's not KDE but hey...