FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

[Mike Clarke]

On Friday 18 January 2013 16:58:11 RW wrote:
> You can carry on using 3.5 on any current release. The problem is when
> it's eventually removed from ports, updating  other ports may result in
> dependency problems.

I'm already starting to experience some problems which I assume are due to 
incompatibility with some recently upgraded dependencies and I've finally, and 
somewhat reluctantly, switched to KDE 4.8. It's certainly more bloated than 
3.5 but after getting rid of some unwanted eye candy it's not as bad as I 
expected, certainly better than last time I tried it out about a year ago. The 
most noticeable deterioration in performance is that it's much slower to start 
up than 3.5 was and kmail takes much longer to open a mail "folder" than it 
used to.

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Mike Clarke