Was it [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote on Wednesday 09 January 2002 06:27:
> I thought it was a bit sluggish too. But not as sluggish as Mandrake
> 8.1 Was running on AMD K6 2-500 with 256MB ram on its own HD.
>
> On 8 Jan 2002, at 19:19, Ken Moffat wrote:
>
> > Anyone trying ELX think it's a bit sluggish?
> > (maybe it's because I have it about 40 gigs in to a 60 gig drive?)
This trespasses on one of my pet hates. I'm told that linux is faster, runs
the pc cooler, etc, etc. There's so many scripts in any distro that the time
taken to run the stuff on my pc is drastic. I'm not in the super pc league
(details below), but if things were compiled, instead of scripted, and if
checks like (Is there scsi devices attached? Does Netscape exist? etc) were
not made, these systems would fly
AMD K6/2-3D 500 Mhz, 64MB SDRAM, 100 Mhz bus
Via Apollo P5MPV3 chipset, Opti Mad 16 931 soundcard
Video= AGP S3 Trio, w/8MB RAM, PS/2 mouse.
Realtek 8029 pci bus network card. Award BIOS
56K external modem on /dev/ttyS1. PS/2 mouse.
/dev/hda=2.5 Gig Maxtor 82560A4 drive(windoze 95)
/dev/hdb=6.4 Gig Fujitsu MPC 3064AT Drive (boot, swap, root)
Unused usb ports.
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Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
Experience is like a comb,
that Life gives you - AFTER all your hair has fallen out!
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