> > 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
I will have to agree with you, HarM. And it's going to be even better when kernel 2.6 is out.. That preempt no-longer-to-be-patch does wonders... Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like "Edit textfile.txt" (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
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