Slow??? I haven't seen any other distribution beat it's performance for
me. Nautilus is especially speedy on my little P400.
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 13:13, Bob File wrote:
> I installed RH 8 on my second box which consisits of a P2 333MHz and 128 M of
> ram and a Diamond Fire Pro 100 card (Glint). The drive is a 6 gig and is
> probably DMA 33. It is pretty much unusable on this system. It is just way
> too slow. I am pretty sure that all interfaces were working properly - I had
> an ethernet card in there and the other box was doing DHCP for it and also
> forwarding, so that was working. I just couldn't stand it - it was so slow.
> I also tried it on my newest box - Athlon 1.2 GHz and 512 M ram and matrox
> G450 video card. The hard drive is a little slow, but it is usable on that
> machine. I think I could recommend it to first timers. I don't remember any
> glitches during installation. The version I have is the downloadable ISO's .
> <plug>
> I have a slow modem connection so I bought CD.s from Bill Bennet:
> http://www.chguy.net/ I would recommend him for slow connection folks.
> </plug>
> The desktop is "reel slick", but beware - it is quite homogenized between
> GNOME and KDE. I am a KDE fan and I am not sure what I think about this.
> OTHO, fonts look good even at small point sizes and the display seems quite
> nice.
> I am used to having a ton of stuff available for installation (SuSE 8), but I
> think the package manager is better than the one built into suse. I tried to
> install something off of one of the suse disks and it stopped and warned me
> about missing dependencies, whereas YAST would have done a -nodeps type of
> install with unknown packages.
> This really isn't a fair comparison between distributions since one is a free
> download and the other is a store bought distribution in a box.
> I do feel that RH 8 is definitely a step in the right direction to getting a
> usable desktop distribution for folks who "just want things to work" and
> don't tinker much.
>
> I see the file directory structure is somewhat different also. I can't
> remember if it is LSB compliant or not, but if it is I can see that I am in
> for a change if I go to upgrade SuSE, because it is going to be LSB also.
> SuSE has a set of scripts that root can get to easily - they all start with
> rc; for instance rcapache [parameter], parameter being something like start |
> stop | reload and the like. I have grown fond of these scripts and I will
> miss them if they aren't included in an LBS distro.
>
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