On Sam, 2003-01-11 at 11:01, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I've had the K6-2 350 system for four years now, and it wasn't bleeding > edge when I bought it. Intel is about to ship a > 3 GHz Pentium 4, if they > haven't already. That's nearly ten times increase in raw clock speed.
Well, that's right, and I'm very impressed of seeing computing power grow up. But look - besides things like video editing or recent games, I can do everything I want on my computer. I think I've trained my patience for eternity trying to install Win98 on an 486sx 33. Well, for *that* machines I agree in classifying them as slow machines. You're talking to someone who uses a Celeron 400 as Gateway, Firewall, Samba and mailserver and thinks this is a pityful waste of computing power. The thing is: I haven't got anything which is slower any more =) > Optimising dpkg/dselect may help. Certainly dpkg/dselect has slowed down > as the number of packages has increased. Well, optimizing is always a good idea. On my machine, dselect takes also 6+ seconds to show me the package selection but I can live quite well with it. The only thing that was really annoying was that sawfish was way too slow. I replaced it with MetaCity now and everything, GNOME2, evolution, whatever is comfortably usable. CU, Philippe -- =([EMAIL PROTECTED])==============================<http://www.seeadler.net/>= | "Die k�rzeste Verbindung zwischen zwei Menschen ist ein L�cheln" | | -- Henry Sakal | =========================================(PGP Key ID: 21C8FB858C71493F)=
