Subject: Re: making old sparcs run fast
To: Tim Walls <tim.walls@pa.press.net>
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/04/2001 19:29:21
On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 01:31:04AM +0100, Tim Walls wrote:
> 
> Konqueror browser with KDE2 and it's surprisingly good.  (As an 
> OpenLook bigot
> it pains me somewhat to admit using KDE, but times change...)  
> The thought of
> even trying to build KDE2 on my Sparc gives me a headache, though.

I built KDE (admittedly 1.something, not 2) on my SS2.  Took a few days
to build, and was slow (a minute or so) to start from KDM, but quite usuable
once it was up and running...

If you like Konq, have a go - you might be surprised.

Regards,
Tim.