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I'm running a PII-450 with 256 megs of RAM, with a 40GB harddrive. The linux partition is ~15GB running ReiserFS, and can be expanded with LVM as neccessary. The hard drive is hooked up to a Promise TX2 Ultra100 card allowing a transfer of ~45MB/sec when set with custom boot parameters and tuned with hdparm. Have an nVidia RIVA TNT2 card, using the rivafb framebuffer driver in console mode (have not yet installed X).

Anyways, which is faster? KDE3 or GNOME2, or is my computer too slow and I should run only a windowmanager like Icewm?

Can Konquerer be set to use the mozilla rendering engine? I've heard about that but I can't find a debian package for it, and I don't think I can alien a RH package and still make it work. If not, is there any way I can disable the browser functions? If not, can I download the source package and compile that?

Konqueror cannot use Gecko. It uses KHTML (which among other things is used for Apple's Safari browser) which is quite a bit lighter. You cannot disable the browser functions, AFAIK.

It is my experience that KDE3 runs slower but launches applications faster (and vice-versa for GNOME2). I'm currently using GNOME2 on my RH9 box.

Well that sucks, since I found something called kdebindings-kmozilla or something that came with RH8 for KDE 3.0x. Is not in the package list for RH9, and appears to have dissapeared off the debian archives. Maybe it's in the source tgzs... of which compiling is not something I'm inclined to do. The moz rendering engine is more robust... I think I can put up with bloat.

Argh, the KDE organization is like MS- integrating the browser into the filemanager.

Anyways, what do you mean by KDE being slower. Do you mean how quickly the UI responds or how fast the desktop loads or both? I can put up with the latter. Also I've heard Nautilus is extremely slow.

I find that the UI is somewhat less responsive on my old laptop when I use KDE3. Nautilus is somewhat slow, alas, but my RH9 box needs a reinstall anyways (something borked when I played around with fonts) to clean stuff up.

kdebindings-mozilla is no longer used in RH9.