Hi there,
this is my first post and i'm very happy to have become part of this community.
I have a question: being a Debian (testing) proud user and loving KDE, i have always considered Debian's KDE implementation very good, fast and reliable; after having tried OpenSuse 11.3 i have to admit that their KDE is faster, and not a little, of Debian's one.
Why? What optimizations Opensuse's engineers have done?
I've compiled my kernel thinking that the problem was there (using preemption and all tips to make the desktop faster) but i haven't obtained the same fluidity and speed, so it's a KDE related question.
The platform is a netbook, a standard one Atom and i945GME; so what's Opensuse's KDE secret? Can i have the same in Debian's?
Many thank to all who will answer.

might answer, might not phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=opensuse_113_benchmarks&num=4

google01103 wrote:might answer, might not phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=opensuse_113_benchmarks&num=4

Oh yes it answers: i have upgraded all mesa and xserver-xorg-video-intel packages to unstable versions, and performances have had a huge improvement. Now windows draw at same (or even greater) speed than in OpenSuse.
I should have to control the versions of these foundamentals packages, but, lazy as i'am, i've preferred writing here.
Many thanks.

openSUSE made some tweaks which are different from the upstream configurations, like use bitmap method in compositing, disable nepomuk and strigi by default, etc. Those tweaks made KDE faster.