6/25/02 1:50:40 AM, Paolo Alexis Falcone, a young Linux Jedi Knight who uses the "source" wrote:
>If you really have a less-endowed setup, you could always adjust by selecting >smaller alternatives that do the job also (ie. Opera or Galeon [just don't >run Mozilla] for web browsing; don't go for GNOME or KDE bloat; go for Abiword >and Gnumeric instead of OOo 1.0 for your desktop suite). For my less endowed >boxes I use Blackbox as my window manager, abiword and gnumeric for the apps, >and opera for a web browser (though there's dillo, but I'm already happy with >opera Thanks for the tips! I also did a few hacks, like turning off animation in KDE, turning on IDE 32-bit IO setting on my IDE drives with hdparm, specifying noatime options to my filesystems, reducing my gettys from 6 to 2 in inittab. It runs fine now. I have this wacky idea. I mean real wacky. Since most Linux distros use perl or python scripts during start-up and other system admin jobs, maybe we could speed this further by using compiled code. I mean, since python and perl are interpreted, could someone perhaps "compile" those perl or python scripts that are unlikely to change, or "glue the scripts to your specific machine, with all the processor-specific optimizations compiled in", so to speak. The freely editable source script would still be open for editing. After editing these scripts, perhaps there would be an option to compile it when done. Compiled scripts would speed up the task efficiently and speed up things in general. See? Real wacky. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
