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Date:      Wed, 02 Jun 1999 13:43:08 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD & X
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990602134308.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906021335300.12846-100000@bragg>

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On 02-Jun-99 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Yes, its pretty crashy :(
>  Even on Linux, I hear. The 1.0 release apparently was only meant to signify
>  the API freeze, not code stabilization. I gather there was quite a bit of
>  release pressure coming from folks like RedHat..

Ugh.. damn stupid linux development model at work :(

> > I've played with it but I always get sick of it, kill it and do rm *.core
> > home directory.. Mind you KDE seemed to be as bad :(
>  I can't think of any problems I've had running KDE 1.1 or 1.1.1 - it's been
>  very stable for me. The only thing is that it seems to be fairly
>  memory-hungry
>  and my machine (48MB) is swapping a lot more than I'd like.
>  Mind you, 1.0 was -terrible- - in the first 10 minutes of my using it it ate
>  my mouse pointer and dumped core twice.

Yuck.. well I use Enlightenment and its less fat than KDE :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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