On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, you wrote:

I finally got around to installing KDE, and it ran like an utter pig. Warning: do not believe people who tell you that a P200 with 32MB of RAM is enough for KDE :) Poor old drmanhattan thrashed itself to death, it was awful...

Aq.

Yes, I have KDE 2 courtesy of the Mandrake 7.2 boxed set. The only real improvement seems to be the addition of Konqueror. Unfortunately, I'm having to use it from the Gnome desktop or Enlightenment, since Kicker (the panel) crashes with a SIGSEGV error every time KDE starts - I'm on my fifth re-install and the same bug occurs every time.

While I think about it, anybody contemplating an upgrade to LM 7.2 for the sake of KDE 2 might want to wait until Mandrake have got it right. Several packages are missing or missed even on the "complete" installation (fetchmail, of all things, being one, no sign of Pine at all, no Enlightenment), KOffice is crude, and the LM installation itself bizzare - 5 installs on the same empty 13gig drive have managed to throw up five different configurations. Oh, and the Helix Gnome (1.21) upgrade wipes the existing Gnome, but the installer fails before completion - I tried this at work just to make sure it wasn't me.

Overall, all I got for £30 was Konqueror and more hassle than was really worth it. You might have had better luck, of course...