How slow is slow? I find it fast enough, but I'm also on a 1.8G centrino with 1Gb of ram. So I'm not too good to ask.
If I recall though, redhat 8 and 9 were very slow... so I would give it a try. Only takes about an hour to install. -joel On Thursday 23 February 2006 22:49, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: > How do you find the speed of Ubuntu? > > I have a relatively slow laptop, hence the reason I've kept Gentoo on it. > It crawled a few years ago when I had Red Hat 8 and 9 on it. I nuked that, > put on XP/Gentoo, and it was hella fast in comparison. This week, I > scraped it and have reinstalled Gentoo with the latest kernel. (Geez, I > wish that I had saved some key config files before doing so...) > > On 2/23/06, Joel Brauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Couldn't have said it better myself. I have always liked Debian in > > theory, > > just practice never seemed to gel. Too much information that wasn't > > straight forward. Ubuntu combines the community of Gentoo, with the ease > > of > > use and stability of Debian. > > > > I've also always liked SuSE best of all the RPM based systems. The new > > novell > > desktop demos I've seen look like it is going to ROCK!! I'm sure it'll > > be ported over though ;) > > > > -joel > > > > On Thursday 23 February 2006 17:14, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: > > > At SCaLE, one of the Google people (Dan Kegel, I think) said that > > > > Unbuntu > > > > > was "Debian done right" > > > > > > I've heard nothing but good things about it. > > > > > > I watched someone install SuSE last night. Wow, that was incredibly > > > > easy > > > > > -- way easier than Windows in a lot of respects. > > > > > > On 2/23/06, Brauer, Joel (LLU) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Nah, Gentoo is very nice, for those who have time to customize > > > > everything > > > > > > and build everything from source. Ubuntu just works. I don't have > > > > as much time to tinker as I used to, but I still love linux. So I > > > > moved > > > > to > > > > > > an environment that allows me to use my preferred environment, and is > > > > set > > > > > > up pretty much the way I like it, out of the box. I still like > > > > gentoo, I > > > > > > just wish they had a binary release so I didn't have to wait for > > > > everything to compile. > > > > > > > > You can't imagine how much fun it is to install a new version of KDE > > > > in > > > > > > the time it takes to download packages + 1 minute to install. > > > > > > > > Gentoo, eat your heart out :) > > > > > > > > -joel > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [email protected] on behalf of Roger E. Rustad, Jr. > > > > Sent: Thu 2/23/2006 11:52 AM > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: Re: [909linux] Walla Walla Gentoo Mirror > > > > > > > > Lemme guess, one too many bad uses of "emerge world"? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2/23/06, Diehl, William <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Ubuntu? Why did you switch? > > > > > > > > William Diehl > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [email protected] > > > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joel > > > > Brauer > > > > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:41 PM > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Cc: Roger E. Rustad, Jr. > > > > Subject: Re: [909linux] Walla Walla Gentoo Mirror > > > > > > > > back when I was still using gentoo, I'm on ubuntu now, I like > > > > the > > > > > > oregan > > > > state > > > > university mirror, or the default. Never really had issues > > > > with > > > > > > too > > > > much > > > > slow down. Are you really on a fast enough pipe to notice? > > > > > > > > -joel > > > > > > > > On Monday 20 February 2006 14:19, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: > > > > > Actually, Walla Walla's is quite fast. Perhaps I'll stick > > > > with > > > > > > that > > > > one... > > > > > > > > > Is there one at La Sierra that I can use? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Joel Brauer > > > > Manager IS > > > > Web Application Development > > > > Loma Linda University > > > > [email protected] > > > > work: 909-558-7713 > > > > pager: [email protected] > > > > cell: 909-534-1934 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 909linux mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux > > > > -- > > Joel Brauer > > Manager IS > > Web Application Development > > Loma Linda University > > [email protected] > > work: 909-558-7713 > > pager: [email protected] > > cell: 909-534-1934 -- Joel Brauer Manager IS Web Application Development Loma Linda University [email protected] work: 909-558-7713 pager: [email protected] cell: 909-534-1934
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