I remember running some time ago running fvwm on my 100MHz 80486, and it felf as fast as KDE3.1 on 800MHz Athlon.
Cornelius
Christopher Henderson wrote:
Unixen seem to use RAM rather liberally, mostly for caching and buffering - trust me, most of that RAM isn't being used by apps - so RAM shouldn't be a prob. "Fast" is rather subjective, but it seems that Gnome (as well as KDE) are slower then they should be. Linux (the kernel) is plenty fast, as is X-Windows - bot the Desktop Environments seem much heavier then they should be. However, all is not lost. In what ways is it slower? App launch time? Responsiveness? Most people will advice you to check and see if DMA is turned on, sometimes its turned off by default - turning it on will make a world of difference. Also, even in Windows, Open Office is slow to boot. Thats not a Linux issue.
I've run Red Hat 9 on my PII 266 mhz laptop (288 megs RAM) and, while sluggish to launch apps, its responsive. For whatever wacky ass reason Red Hat seems to by default launch with background services the majority of us don't need, stuff for Oracle and whatever else (I forget the name of the service) that simply occupy RAM. I hear that Ximian's XD2 version of Gnome is faster then Red Hat's, I dunno if thats true - about to install it myself and find out.
~Christopher Henderson
Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote:
I am migrating my workstations to RH9 from WindowsME and 98SE.
So... I intalled RH9.0 and all the workstations are so much slower, all of the
stuff is so much slower. Workstations are mostly Dells with about 900Mhz or
higher, all with 300(-ish) Megs of RAM. System monitors are telling me that RAM
is filled about %95 and swap is filled %5. Any advice on how to make things run
a bit faster without hardware upgrades?
Apolinaras "Apollo" Sinkevicius
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