On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 19:10 -0800, Pablo Manalastas wrote: > I installed Fedora Core 6 on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop, because I > had to teach Linux system administration to old-time HPUX system > administrators. FC6 on my laptop helped me prepare to teach the > course, since I can do the lab exercises on my laptop, even before I > had to teach the exercises in the lab class. I had a few weeks before > Christmas to get used to the almost FHS-2.0 compliant FC-6 box, and > FC6 is fairly easy to get used to.
For something like that (particularly if system administration is going to be command line rather than GUI), I prefer to install the test environment in vmware (if I could figure out how to install Xen, I'd do that instead, I use vmware since it's now free and it's easy). Some people swear by Fedora Core. I haven't tried it recently though (hangover from long-ago experiences when red hat wasn't very smooth on the desktop compared to other distributions [openlinux, mandrake, one or two other distributions I tried back then]). If you can track down what was slowing things down, it might be interesting. Maybe some of the SELinux stuff? an strace while starting the program might be useful, e.g., in a terminal, you could open another terminal: strace gnome-terminal > strace.txt and then see if you can figure out from strace where the time is going. maybe use strace -r to get relative timestamps (although I've never had to use that, might be interesting for timing information, I don't use strace for timing myself, just for tracing through system calls to see what the program is doing and where it might be getting borked). tiger _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
