On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> has anyone found RH 7 to be somewhat slower than 6.0? I just tested it
> and I was surprised (and disappointed).
>
.mmmmm I though 6.1 on my HP 100MHz LC (full scsi) with 64MB RAM
was getting a bit slow so I thought I'd give Mandrake 7.0 a go
on the basis that it is at least optimised for P5. However, I
abandoned that Idea half way through the install. I liked
the package selection somewhat better in M. 7.2 but didn't
like the liberities it took with the system. I think its
orientated very definitely towards the point-&-click market.
It also thinks you're going to install KDE and gets in a knot
when Gnone is selected - long story and not the point of this
email.
I then attempted an install from an June distrbution of RH
6.2 from an Australian Linux distributor but this version
of 6.2 (did't try others) didn't like the 274X scsi bus on
my HP Feeling quite suicidal by this stage I though I'd give
RH 7.0 a go despite all the FU&D that had accompanied the product.
I was genuinely interested to see just how bad it was. To my
surprise it installed fine.
Despite RH 7.0 sucking more memory (the output from free is
quite depressing) Gnome runs faster in 7.0 than
it ever did in previous versions. I've had to recomple a few
programs (which I did not have to do in previous RH upgrades)
and the speed of compile is very fast and the programs
run very fast.
I have two scsi disks with 256M of swap on each disk so despite
the reference to 64MB for swap MABYE having more swap helps;
it is certainly being used (output from free). I also have
/usr/share on the disk with / and /usr on the other disk and
I think this helps too. [BTW - thanks to those who assisted
with the LABLE= problem I had with /etc/fstab - a new innovation
in RH 7]
I use the machine for "office apps" and some playing about. I
don't have a sound card; I've given up trying to get a
sound card not to conflict at the BIOS level (an HP issue
and not a Linux issue)
Concluding, I don't do any "real" developemnt work on
my home machine (and I note Linus T. comment recently about
the compiler in RH 7.0 being "virtually useless" ) so obviously
I don't strech it. All I can say is that I'm plesantly
surprised (not to say astonished - given the "bad press")
that RH 7.0 works for me I've also upgraded to all the most
recent relevant *.rpm packages. I think all I need is another
64MB and I'll be grinning
cheers, Kyle Hargraves
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