haakon@gnuru:~$ cat nettopp.sh
#!/bin/bash
sudo modprobe -r ath9k
sudo modprobe ath9k
haakon@gnuru:~$

I hope you find it useful.

I've added quite a number of screenshots in the Norwegian Free Software group on Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=photos&ref=…

I'm particularly pleased with the combination of the genealogy program GRAMPS and the webcam program Cheese. Adding pictures immediately has never been so easy – people sit down before the Eee, smile when they see themselves and you get a nice picture to add to their entry in GRAMPS.

I just had to have one of those new Mandelbulb images, and used a patched version of POV-Ray 3.6 and Kpovmodeler 1.1.3 (image saving doesn't work without the patch) to produce this 3D fractal on the Eee. A 4000×4000 image took 27 1/2 hours, but since most software does not use the processor, I could still do other work.

Cheers,
Haakon

>This statement is absurd. That's backed by installing both on dozens of different machines.

There is nothing absurd about it. KDE4 exercises the GPU heavily, and if your target system and its graphics driver is not up to scratch, then it won't perform. However, on systems where the GPU and the graphics driver IS OK, particularly for 2D hardware graphics acceleration (which, BTW, excludes most nvidia systems and nvidia binary driver versions), then KDE4 is fast. Very fast.

Faster than GNOME.

For example, Intel drivers are OK with KDE4 except for the Poulsbo chipset, and except for Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.04 and 8.10.

So, for example, on the same netbook Kubuntu 9.10 and later will be appreciably faster than Ubuntu 9.10, unless it is one of the few models of netbooks that has an Intel Poulsbo graphics chipset or a Nvidia Ion graphics chipset.

This statement is absurd. That's backed by installing both on dozens of different machines.

But I wouldn't trust Kubuntu to deliver a good KDE experience, ever, which is very unfortunate.

By adequate I mean any graphics with a GPU and a decent Linux driver. Open source drivers are best, as they have been benchmarked at a few time faster than closed-source proprieatary binary blob drivers. To get open source drivers you will need either an Intel GPU, and older ATI GPU (R500 or earlier), or any ATI GPU after kernel 2.6.32 is released later this year.

Since Qt 4.6 has just been released with performance improvements, and new Intel drivers with performance improvements have also just been released, and Linux kernel 2.6.32 with performance improvements is at rc8 stage just now, then KDE4 performance on Intel Atom/Intel graphics netbooks will step up another notch again next year when Kubuntu 10.4 (LTS) will be released.

Your Kubuntu netbooks will really fly then.