Please read my previous post in this thread re: incorrect or suboptimal
monitor driver for X.
Dave
At 01:41 PM 11/29/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Mine is definitely way slower than Windows. When dragging my mouse around
>the screen it appears to periodically get caught on some virtual "rug", it
>takes 3 or 4 seconds to iconify and restore a window, it takes about 30
>seconds to get the desktop properties. I just don't get it, it's extremely
>frustrating...
>
>BeOS seems to run quite nicely tho...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dickman, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 12:25 PM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: RE: [newbie] Performance...
>
>
>IMO, Your system no doubt seems slower since you have such a beast at work.
>I have a 21" monitor here, when I go home to my paltry 17" it feels like I'm
>looking at a 15"... ;-)
>
>My Celeron 400i w/ 64MB RAM seems to run MDK7.2 and KDE2 just fine...
>Faster than Windows - and that's what's really important to me.
>
>-JD-
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:09 AM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: RE: [newbie] Performance...
>
>
>Just FYI,
>
>I'm running 7.2 KDE on a PII400/288MB and it's a slow as crap!
>Especially while running with a terminal window, Netscape, Pan, and XMMS.
>
>You might be able to run linux the OS on a 486 with 16MB of ram, but my
>impression is if you want to run a linux "desktop" system, you need some
>fairly decent machinery.
>
>I have a PIII800/256MB at work running the same installation as I do at
>home, and it's very spunky. But unfortunately I can't afford such an
>environment...
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vincent Primavera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 11:50 AM
>To: Newbie List; Expert List
>Subject: [newbie] Performance...
>
>
>Hello,
> I am running v7.2 on a 433 Mhz Celeron with 192 MB of RAM which I
>recently
>upgraded from 64 MB. There is an increase in performance, but not major.
>It
>is recognizing the RAM. Is there any configuring that I can do to increase
>performance?
>
> Thank You,
> Vincent A. Primavera
Dave Sherman
SoftServ Business Systems, Inc.
"Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
