On Thursday 27 February 2003 21:45, logic7 wrote: > I hold mdk7.2 as my personal benchmark for speed > and stability and, IMO, no other version after that can stand up to it. I > have noticed, tho, that this is not limited to just Mandrake. RedHat has > the same problem, each successive version is slower. I've been trying out > each new version of Mandrake and RH on a p166 w/64MB or 128MB of RAM just > to see
That's strange, I have just the opposite experience. Agreeing with you that 7.2 was an exceptionally good release (and can hardly wait for 9.2 - it's the odd numbers I bet) I found that 8.2 and higher gave much better performance on low end P166's. AFAIK this was mostly due to Xfree4.2 on the gui side. Running KDE2.2 with Mandrake8.0 was already too much. KDE3.1 apps (not the whole desktop!) runs ever so slow.....but runs on the same machine. Without gui it's just faster than 7.2 whilst 8.0 and 8.1 swapped themselves to a dreary death. Good luck, HarM
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