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KDE 3.5.4
Posted by JLP on August 2nd, 2006
A new version of the most popular desktop environment for Linux is out. KDE 3.5.4 is here and in addition to a lot of bug fixes and updated translations there are also some small enhancements. Removable devices are handled better, KHTML engine for rendering web pages is much improved and Konsole and Kate are faster now. For all the details about KDE 3.5.4, including the instructions for downloading, check out the release announcement. AMD Turion 64 in my laptop with Gentoo Linux is already compiling the new version. My desktop computer will have to wait a bit longer, until I get the new AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core, which will make compilation a lot faster.
August 2nd, 2006 at 23:07:08
Hello Jure!
Tell me, how many resources does KDE take?
//Bit off topic: I am thinking of install linux only on my machine. How do you pass by problems with windows programs, such as ASP and others?
Anyway… very nice blog, indeed!
August 3rd, 2006 at 01:13:38
Hi Vito!
Hard to say how many resources would KDE need. I always have too many applications open at the same time so I can’t give an exact number. But I know that one of my cousins was running it on a 500 MHz Pentium II and with 256 MiB of memory. it was kind od slow on this machine. After he upgraded memory to 768 MiB it was a lot better. So I guess that if you have at least 512 MiB of memory and at least 1 GHz CPU it should work just fine (that’s what my sister used to run KDE).
As for Windows apps, well nowdays I don’t need them at all. I remember that ASP had problems running under WINE but I tried it a long time ago and it is quite possible that it runs just fine with the latest version 0.9.18. I can try it again and see howit goes. The only thing that we need Windows these days is for AutoCAD (which father needs) and for a couple of adventure games we play from time to time.
Hope this helps, and I’m glad you like the blog.
August 4th, 2006 at 00:22:38
I had a Dell laptop once and I tried to play Neverwinter Nights on it while running KDE. That didn’t work out too well.
August 4th, 2006 at 13:33:19
Kyle, what where the specifications of that laptop? And as far as I know NWN is quite a demanding game, even on my desktop with AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 1 GiB of memory and GeForce 6800.
August 6th, 2006 at 02:12:45
That laptop was a piece of shit. I was running an Intel Celeron 2.0GHz proc, lame Intel graphics card, 700+MB of RAM and 30GB HD
August 7th, 2006 at 00:46:17
Doesn’t sound bad. Well maybe for NWN and games in general. But it should be more than enough for KDE and other productive work.
November 14th, 2006 at 18:12:39
Hi! I want to upgrade my current installation of KDE to the most current version (3.5.5), but the computer it’s going on only has dialup access, and obviously it would take an EXTREMELY long time to get all of the necessary components.
I have decided to attempt to install the program manually, downloading the pieces I need onto my laptop, then transferring them over to my XP machine and copying them to the Suse 10.0 installation, which can read NTFS partitions. yes, it sounds kinda Rube Goldberg-ish, but the laptop has wireless access, but no CD/DVD burner.
Anyways, what components are required to do just a bare-bones install? Thank you)
November 14th, 2006 at 18:37:45
Depends on what bare bone means to you. To get KDE running you usually need only arts, kdelibs and kdebase packages. To see which packages you need to download, just try to select and install those and it will also select other required packages that you maybe don’t have installed yet. Then write this list somewhere and download the packages.