On 12/02/2016, Miroslav Skoric <sko...@uns.ac.rs> wrote: > On 02/10/2016 10:17 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > >> >> so, are you prepared for valentine's day massacre? >> > > Actually not: It is Wheezy (7.9) now, and I predict its valentine's day > massacre to approach in few years. Btw, when is the end of life for > Wheezy LTS? > >> or have you tried something like memory upgrade? >> >> I notice slowdown when logging to lxde after upgrading to jessie, >> however I think most of problems aren't related to HW performance, I >> remember ~18 tears ago when installing dnsmasq locally speed up my >> computer much. >> > > Well, it's an 1999-year machine, 224 meg RAM, Celeron 400 MHz. I do not > plan to waste $$$ for an upgrade. As long as it works I'll keep it as > is. Interestingly, while that box was running Squeeze LTS, I found xfce > to be the fastest GUI (compared to lxde and gnome). Now with Wheezy, > Gnome is the speediest. It's slow but works. > >
Have you tried the MATE desktop? I do not know how the different desktops compare, in terms of speed, but, it could be worth trying MATE - I expect that it would be faster than GNOME. But, I am not an expert or anything like that. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................