Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-20 Thread Zoki
Le 11/06/2003 18:50, « Hal Burgiss » <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ ssh feenix uptime > 12:41pm up 316 days, 7:57, 13 users, load average: 0.29, 0.29,0.19 > > > I do enjoy stability and will take the time and effort to get what I > want out of software and hardware

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-12 Thread Zoki
Le 10/06/2003 01:43, « MWafkowski » <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > You've had the nerve (or the innocence 8^) to expose the "elephant" in the > middle of the living room. > > mega cliché delete > *** Thanks Mike for your point of view. For your info, ever since I joined the list in the RH

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-12 Thread Randy Perkins
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 06:36, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > >Windows XP Pro also has "Remote Desktop", built in ready to go right out > >of the box. > > That only works with another XP machine. X allows connections from any > machine that runs X, including Winboxes (see Cygwin/XFree86, eXceed, etc).

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-12 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 06:43 pm, Ben Russo wrote: > Robert Adkins wrote: > >Man... > > > > I have no idea why you have such slowness in you machine, except maybe > >you need more memory in your system. > > > > Personally, I am running Red Hat 9 on a Duron 900 with 512 MB of RAM. > >The s

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-12 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:15:59AM +0200, T. Ribbrock wrote: > > :-) Copy/paste is exactly one of the things I like better under X... > Mark, middle mouse button drop. Works and is very simple to use (and Same here. Easier to use (hehehe), and much more functional. -- Hal Burgiss -- redhat

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 11-Jun-2003/18:48 -0400, Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >T. Ribbrock wrote: >>Well, it all depends on what you're doing with your machine(s). In my >>eyes, Windows is way behind X. Why? Because I care less about speed, >>but quite a lot about the fact that you can use remote displays with

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 11-Jun-2003/18:43 -0400, Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I like my Linux workstations, I would love to see open-standards e-mail >and open-office used on a larger number of >peoples desks. I think that KDE and or GNOME has come a long way... >But I agree with the original >poster, X

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-12 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:59:40AM +1000, Brad wrote: > > I have been using Linux on the desktop at work and home for the past 18 > months and I really like it. However, at times it is woefully slow to do > anything. [ snip benchmark results ] Hummm This isn't at all normal. Your computer is

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-12 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:43:56PM -0400, Ben Russo wrote: [...] > poster, X is SLOW SLOW SLOW and the GUI's are nowhere near as > smooth and clean looking. The latter is clearly a matter of personal preference. To me, for example, a nicely set-up Window Maker screen is miles ahead of the

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-12 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:48:34PM -0400, Ben Russo wrote: > Windows XP has virtual desktops (not as fully customizable as most > X-window managers, but good enough). So, after about 15-20 years, Windows has finally caught up in usability? >;-) > You have to get the Microsoft XP power toy for mu

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-11 Thread AragonX
Ah too true. I have yet to exploit the remote desktop but I do use the virtual desktops with glee. I've heard that Windows will have that in the next version. I bought a video card that has dual-head but unfortunately, I'm still running 98 on my Windows partition. It doesn't support dual monito

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:41:29PM -0500, Randy Perkins wrote: > > hello > how does one get uptime like this with all the kernel updates > that are put out for security. my systems are stable but i dont know > how to update the kernel without rebooting Look at them and weigh benefit vs ris

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-11 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
This has troll written all over it. Please people, do not feed the troll! This list will degrade into a Linux vs. Windows mess! +++ MWafkowski [RedHat] [Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:43:54PM -0400]: > You've had the nerve (or the innocence 8^) to expose the "elephant" in the > middle of the living roo

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-11 Thread Ben Russo
T. Ribbrock wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:18:39PM -0400, AragonX wrote: [...] Now here is where we see eye to eye. Somewhat... X has been disappointing to me. I still have to use Windows because I can't get my games on X. [...] Well, it all depends on what you're doing with your ma

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Ben Russo
Robert Adkins wrote: Man... I have no idea why you have such slowness in you machine, except maybe you need more memory in your system. Personally, I am running Red Hat 9 on a Duron 900 with 512 MB of RAM. The system is VERY snappy. From a cold start Kmail loads up and is ready t

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-11 Thread Matt Rowley
Well, it all depends on what you're doing with your machine(s). In my eyes, Windows is way behind X. Why? Because I care less about speed, but quite a lot about the fact that you can use remote displays with almost no effort at all - and that I've been able to so for years. That's somethng MS still

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-11 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:18:39PM -0400, AragonX wrote: [...] > Now here is where we see eye to eye. Somewhat... > > X has been disappointing to me. I still have to use Windows because I > can't get my games on X. [...] Well, it all depends on what you're doing with your machine(s). In my eyes

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
> hello > how does one get uptime like this with all the kernel updates > that are put out for security. my systems are stable but i dont know > how to update the kernel without rebooting You can't. However, you usually don't need to do kernel security updates for a non-public system. The

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Randy Perkins
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 11:50, Hal Burgiss wrote: > My other system: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ ssh feenix uptime > 12:41pm up 316 days, 7:57, 13 users, load average: 0.29, 0.29,0.19 > hello how does one get uptime like this with all the kernel updates that are put out for security.

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-11 Thread AragonX
> Myth #1 - Stability. Linux is a more stable OS then windows (2000/XP). > This > true enough, UNLESS you're talking about desktop Linux ie: KDE or Gnome. > To believe that any "out of the box" install of any current major distro > setup as a desktop (KDE or Gnome) is more stable than an equivale

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 11-Jun-2003/07:30 -0700, Jonathan Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd have to agree here. My personal Workstation runs: [snipped list of services similar to my own list] >I usually have open: [snipped list of apps not much different to what I run] I do run vim instead of emacs, but I won

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Robert Adkins
Man... I have no idea why you have such slowness in you machine, except maybe you need more memory in your system. Personally, I am running Red Hat 9 on a Duron 900 with 512 MB of RAM. The system is VERY snappy. From a cold start Kmail loads up and is ready to use in less

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:30:48AM -0700, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > I'd have to agree here. My personal Workstation runs: > [...] I would agree. I have two linux desktops here and both are on a par with the W98 systems I use at work. But what is more impressive to me is that my main workstatio

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Daniel Dui
I mostly agree. In Windows many libraries are loaded already, that's why IE starts up so quickly. Same goes for other apps. X has a client-server architecture that makes is very flexible but also slower than the Windows GUI. Look at how clunky Nautilus is. Open Office is a hog. It uses a ridiculo

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
I'd have to agree here. My personal Workstation runs: * two database servers (MySQL and PostgreSQL) * a web server which gets moderate usage * a file server * a mail server This is my development box which I use for a number of applications, adn the desktop is pretty responsive especially

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Gary Stainburn
(Top posting because of the length of the OP) One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is what else have you got running? If it's a usual dist, you've probably got a dozen services starting by default, including Apache, maybe named etc. all of these will be using up precious resources. Also, d

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Also, there's a tool that RH ships (or used to ship) on the CD but didn't install. I forget what it's called, but it helps speed up the loading of shared objects. Jon On 11 Jun 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 07:59, Brad wrote: > > I have been using Linux on the desktop at wor

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Try this: find the PIDs of your X-server, your window manager, and your file manager. After X-Windows starts, for each PID, run as root: renice -20 WHATEVERTHATPIDWAS And see how that helps. There's a way to do this automatically on startup, but it depends on how you are doing logins (xdm, gdm

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-11 Thread Frank & Nancy Wise
Is there a good benchmark package to objectively test the performance when one makes tweaks/changes? Frank Wise --- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. - M

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-10 Thread Fred Whipple
MWafkowski wrote: To believe that any "out of the box" install of any current major distro setup as a desktop (KDE or Gnome) is more stable than an equivalent install of XP or 2000 on the same hardware is plain NUTS! While I agree with you fundamentally, this is also a very subjective matter. I'

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-10 Thread MWafkowski
You've had the nerve (or the innocence 8^) to expose the "elephant" in the middle of the living room. Among all the high fives and rah-rahing on this list (and other Linux lists I belong to) about Linux vs Windows there are some things most of us would seem to rather ignore. Linux people have th

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 07:59, Brad wrote: > I have been using Linux on the desktop at work and home for the past 18 > months and I really like it. However, at times it is woefully slow to do > anything. > No performance tweaking of either OS has been performed. I just want to point out here that it

Re: Linux desktop speed...

2003-06-10 Thread Sérgio Monteiro Basto
try to move /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron to cron.monthly On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 22:59, Brad wrote: > I have been using Linux on the desktop at work and home for the past 18 > months and I really like it. However, at times it is woefully slow to do > anything. > > =