[dot] OSNews.com: The KDE 3.2 Beta 2 User Review

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From: Navindra Umanee <navindra at kde.org>
Dept: not-as-fast-as-dos
Date: Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @19:19

OSNews.com: The KDE 3.2 Beta 2 User Review
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   Rahul Gaitonde [rahul at NOSPAM.linux.net] has written a fairly
comprehensive review of KDE 3.2 Beta 2
[http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5670] for OSNews
[http://www.osnews.com/] based on his 3 week trial. "The target machine
- my only computer - is a Pentium II 266 MHz with 384 MB RAM, with an
Intel i810E chipset. [...]  The first thing you notice when you start up
a few apps is - 'Boy, this is Fast!'. KDE 3.2 is significantly faster
than 3.1, and certainly way faster than Gnome 2.4 on my machine. It
reminds me of the kind of responsiveness that Windows 98 used to give me
on this same configuration few years ago (minus the crashes). Konsole
opens up almost instantaneously, and Konqueror takes only about 3
seconds the first time. I was afraid that the increase in bloat with
every release of KDE since the 1.x series would one day prevent me from
using this computer at all with KDE. I'm glad the guys over at KDE have
so splendidly allayed my fears."  The review has a lot of screenshots
and other information on the release.  As usual, Plastik
[http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7559] gets huge props.