On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:46:15PM -0600, Theresa Kehoe wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 21:20 -0600, Sean Burns wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:40:43PM -0600, Sean Burns wrote: > > [...]But here are just some basic benchmarks: > > Looks like pre-linking might be worth it, then. Do we have any > benchmarks between KDE and Gnome in general, on the standard graduate > machine? If not, are you willing to take the time (and do you have the > time), using that same test machine? > > > Btw, this is on the HP Pavilion, 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM. Oh, and there's > > an issue with it shutting down. It shuts down but it doesn't power off > > completely. > > Most likely, advanced power management setting, either not set in BIOS > (or the mainboard doesn't support APM) or Debian isn't running with it > enabled. Either way shouldn't be hard to fix.
I'll do some more benchmarking and see if there's a difference in performance other than just opening apps. I'll also see if I can fix the poweroff settings. I think I've done it before so it shouldn't be too difficult figuring it out again. I'll check the bios also. Thanks for the tips. sean
