On 12 Jun 2003, Eric Robinson wrote: > I could hardly have been more disappointed with the result. My Linux > machine acts like arbitrary timers and wait states have been inserted > all over the place. If I get a couple of windows open, I can plan to > wait 2-15 seconds for almost anything I do. Some comparisons:
Some bloatware is just going to be slow (e.g. Mozilla and OpenOffice). Also, KDE and (to a lesser extent) GNOME are relatively slow, too. Replace 'em all. Use AbiWord for fast word processing whenever possible; it's less featureful, but definitely more nimble. Use Galeon instead of Mozilla; it's the same rendering engine, but faster. Use a window manager instead of a desktop environment; good choices are WindowMaker and Xfce. Heck, with proper tweaking, TWM is an absolute speed demon. Also, the default Red Hat 9 uses GNOME with Metacity. Metacity doesn't let you turn off animations and such; if nothing else, replace it with SawFish so that you can turn animations off. That might help a bit, too. -- The DMCA is anti-consumer. The RIAA has no right to rewrite copyright laws to suit themselves. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
