{"id":219,"date":"2006-06-09T16:14:29","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T20:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=219"},"modified":"2006-06-09T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T21:37:21","slug":"kde-353-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"KDE 3.5.3 installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short note to tell you that I managed to download and install KDE 3.5.3 (a whopping 231 MB of Slackware packages!). I do not perceive any functionality changes (and I shouldn&#8217;t, by the way), but on the whole the environment seems to be more robust, stable, and more willing to coexist in a machine with several hardware constraints.<\/p>\n<p>The press release specifically mentioned that this release should start faster, and I can confirm that. On <code>goyeneche<\/code>, the 128 MB Celeron 466 IBM PC 300 GL I use at office, KDE start times were as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>KDE 3.5.2:<\/strong> 41.64 s<\/li>\n<li><strong>KDE 3.5.3:<\/strong> 28.51s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The time was measured from the moment the key Enter was pressed on the <code>startx<\/code> command (in init 3, of course) to the point where control was given to the user.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, there is an improvement of about 31.54% from KDE 3.5.2. Kudos to the KDE hackers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short note to tell you that I managed to download and install KDE 3.5.3 (a whopping 231 MB of Slackware packages!). I do not perceive any functionality changes (and I shouldn&#8217;t, by the way), but on the whole the environment seems to be more robust, stable, and more willing to coexist in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}