In billie’s blog, he mentioned a really good reason for KDE users to switch to KDE 4 when it comes out.

Not mine, but one Korneliusz Jarzebski (in Polish) has done the numbers (pro-linux coverage in German) and produced a chart showing exactly how the RAM consumption of comparable KDE4 and KDE3 sessions measure up. The result is a mindblowing 39% smaller memory footprint in KDE 4. This just goes to show, that it’s worth making large-scale changes to your desktop environment to get the fruit hanging on the higher branches. Wait for the mini- and micro-optimisations to start happening in KDE 4.x, too.

The 39% less in memory usage may raise some eyebrows knowing that a lot of people consider KDE as more memory-hogging than GNOME. But at least we have something to look forward to KDE 4. I know I do.

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Lately, I am constantly being bothered by the POST message my computer shows me that says:

Found 1048576KB Memory Single-Channel Mode

I tinkered around the BIOS settings, checking that I must have left something out that should be set other than the default value, and still that goddamn message still shows up. But I know that it is about the memory (duh!). Read the rest of this entry »

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