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KLyDE: Lightweight KDE Desktop In the Making

Posted by timothy on from the vs-klydesdale dept.

jrepin writes "During Hack Week 9 at SUSE, longtime KDE hacker Will Stephenson started working on a project codenamed KLyDE. This project's aim is to bring KDE Plasma to the lightweight desktop market. It applies KDE's strengths of modularity and configurability to the challenge of making a lightweight desktop." Better said, Stephenson was able to devote lots of time to it; he's been working on the project for a few years now.

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  1. Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Removing the more bloated 'features' KDE is laden with by default would get most of us there. I suspect 99% of KDE users would be just fine without the Akonadi MySQL instance in their home directory.

  2. Re:KDE and lightweight. by gagol · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My idea of lightweight do not include unity or any recent gnome desktop. compare against xfce or lxde... anything else is uselessly fat and slow.

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  3. Re:KDE and lightweight. by JoeMerchant · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lightweight is no longer about size... cheap systems are coming with 8GB of Flash and 2GB of RAM these days.

    What's important is speed on relatively (400MHz) slow/weak low power processor cores.