Might be due to fedora. I switched from redhat to slack and had a big speed increase.
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From: Trevor Smith <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: kde@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:52:14 -0400
>Now that I've upgraded to the latest KDE and have been using FC1 for a while
>I'm ready to start trying to make it faster.
>
>I have 384meg of ram on an older computer (PIII 500) and Win2kPro, which is a
>huge pig if run in less RAM, is VERY snappy. KDE, however, is not. For
>example, double-clicking on my home directory icon on the desktop takes
>between 1 and 3 seconds to open it. On Win2k this action would be
>instantaneous. (There are 14 visible items in the directory; file previews
>are turned OFF.)
>
>Opening a Konsole window produces the same results (2 - 3 or even more seconds
>delay before it is open).
>
>This is not an issue of disk drive access, KDE just seems "sluggish".
>
>Is this something that can be fixed? Is it something I can fix now? Or does it
>simply require more / faster/ newer hardware / resources?
>
>Or can it never be "fixed"? Is it, in fact, just the nature of the code that
>KDE will never "pop open" windows as quickly as Win2kPro does?
>
>It's frustrating when I occasionally boot back to Win2k and see how "snappy"
>my system responds compared to what I'm forced to deal with on a regular
>basis with FC1 + KDE. I'll buy a new computer, if that is what it will take,
>but please tell me that there is *some* way to make a KDE desktop behave the
>way a computer *should* in the 21st century! :-)
>
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