On Thursday 19 February 2004 11:21 am, Charlie Mahan wrote:
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> Thursday 19 February 2004 9:33 am, Lanman wrote:
> > On February 19, 2004 11:09 am, Charlie Mahan wrote:
> > > That's been a "feature" since at least 9.2. Probably earlier, I can't
> > > recall precisely when I first encountered it Maybe 9.0 or 9.1?
> > >
> > > I thought everyone knew about it.
> > >
> > > Regards;
> > > Charlie
> >
> > Not everyone Charlie. Sigh! But it IS pretty kewl, eh?
>
> When I start thinking like that ("I thought everyone knew...") it reminds
> me that I'm assembling, installing, upgrading, and configuring, _*way too
> many*_ systems again.
>
> Hobby? Yeah.....sure...if you say so. <g>
>
> Always for other people. One of these days, maybe, if I find the extra cash
> and the time....
>
> I like what I've seen of Mandrake 10 so far. Except I'm not seeing any
> smoking performance increase and I can't make a 2.6 kernel boot under any
> circumstances on this old POS.
> - --
> Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org
> Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.rc3.1mdk
> 10:13:53 up 1 day, 12:05, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 1.25, 1.68
> "Money is the root of all money."
> - -- the moving finger
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Charlie, when I installed it installs two kernels a 2.4.xx and the 2.6.xx
kernel, and the 2.4 ended up as default. When I changed lilo to boot the
2.6.xx, that is when I saw the speed increase. You might do a uname -v and
see which one you have running. HTH
--
Dennis M. linux user #180842
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