On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Bernd Mueller wrote:
> c...@freemail.hu wrote: > > Thanks for the answers and suggestions everyone! > > > > The speed issue I have is that simple things, like popup menues, clicking > > on > > tabs of a pagecontrol, changing tasks ...almost everything is handled too > > slowly. Compared to what I am used to, the delay is quite disturbing. The > > other kind of slowness is that when the screen is refreshed it is slow > > enough to see the different areas refreshing one by one. All together it > > feeling is similar to working in a web browser. The PC is an older one: > > Celeron 1700 CPU, 512MB RAM, 200GB HDD (10 GB for Ubuntu), Integrated > > Video, but I think it should be decent enough for running Linux. There was > > enough free RAM so the slowness could not have been caused by disk swaping > > either. > > > > > So, one thing is already clear, I will need a proper driver for the video > > card for sure. But realy would not want to be offtopic any longer, I > > better go to the Ubuntu forums to seek for more specific help. > > > > I am running Ubuntu 6x, 7x, 8x and Windows XP/2000 in VMs on the same > machine and have the same impression as you: For me, Windows feels > snappier than Ubuntu Linux. I run Windows 2000 under a VMWare in linux, and it is dog slow. I think we are more measuring the speed of VMWare and their drivers than the actual guest OS. Michael. _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus