Who does the fastest KDE?

[Feanor]

So a server install + apt-get install kubuntu desktop = desktop install? Or there are differences also in terms of services and then in performance?

[tseliot]

So a server install + apt-get install kubuntu desktop = desktop install? Or there are differences also in terms of services and then in performance?

It's the same.

You should try this instead:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=277090

[Ob1]

The server edition of Dapper + KDE-core

[kopilo]

Maybe it is just my system but I've found Mepis to be fairly darn fast with KDE.

[RAV TUX]

Who does the fastest KDE?

I have noticed that Slackware's 11 KDE is fast but getting everything to work on my laptop would take too much time.

Knoppix 5.0.1

[nyinge]

Installing ubuntu-server and then adding kde-core is alot faster than installing kubuntu.

Just a tip...

Thanks. No wonder installing kubuntu-desktop seems like forever.

[jdong]

FC6 with SELinux disabled, or OpenSUSE 10.2 will likely get you the fastest KDE, as both use DT_GNU_HASH now, which is meant to speed up dynamic linking (a significant portion of the time it takes to load a KDE app)

[chaosgeisterchen]

Thanks, but that would mean that I have to move from Kubuntu to... :-O

[jdong]

Perhaps... though there's still conflicting reports on the effects of DT_GNU_HASH.... Gentoo camp seems to say that it adds about 2MB's worth of hashes to every binary, which will certainly increase IO load.

KUbuntu is plenty fast for me on all of my systems, and Edgy feels a bit snappier than Dapper even.

[chaosgeisterchen]

Yes! I have to admit that I have mentioned 2 things as I went away from SuSE to Kubuntu:

Fonts were not a bit as smooth.. today it is a bit better but whenever I look at SuSE screens from November 2005.. I had Lucida Grande 7pt and it looked super smooth.

And KDE was a lot faster..