Re: [newbie] XFce in 8.2 ?

[Derek Jennings]

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> Naturally though, your mail has made me curious : If 8.2 runs faster
> than 8.1 maybe I'll try that too because, after all I'm a bit addicted
> to aesthetics, I admit.
>
> And here's my question : will 8.2. break the "natural law" that dictates
> every new version to be slower than the previous one ? - IOW : can 8.2
> run reasonably fast on my old laptop ?
>
> Can I have your opinion, please ?
>
> TIA
>
> Kaj Haulrich
> Denmark

Well Kaj. My opinion is not worth much since I have only been a Mandrake user 
since 8.0.
For sure 8.1 is slower than 8.0, and 8.2 is faster again. How much is hard to 
judge, but KDE was painfully slow in 8.1 on my 233MHz 96M RAM laptop, while 
in 8.2 it is fairly lively and quite usable. (Except with Open Office where 
the display follows 10 secs behind my typing)  I'd say give it a go.  8.2 is 
pretty nice. It has certainly been easier to get fully configured than either 
8.0, or 8.1.  But then maybe thats just because I have some idea about what I 
am doing now ;-)

BTW: Civileme often recommends using the 2.2 kernel on 'challenged' hardware. 
So maybe thats why you find 7.0 so fast? Maybe 8.2 with the 2.2 kernel could 
be the best for you?



I have made progress on the problem with XFce. It seems to relate to 
supermount and xftree.  Other file managers do not have a problem, and if I 
disable supermount xftree is OK. Looks like I'll have to try to get used to 
some other window manager, or else take advantage of the KDE running so much 
better and use that.

derek



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Re: [newbie] XFce in 8.2 ?

[Kaj Haulrich]

Derek Jennings wrote:
> 
>
> 
> KDE seems to be OK, and the new kernel makes KDE run significantly faster on
> my laptop than 8.1  did  ;-)
> 
> derek
> 
>

Nice to hear that, Derek. I have an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad 380D with
P150/32 MB RAM) that I use as my "backup & rescue &
old_faithful"-system. Until recently I used OS/2 on it, because I
trusted it and it runs incredibly fast. Now - it seems - IBM has stopped
supporting it - at least they don't supply updates anymore - so I
decided to convert my "never_laid_me_down"-laptop to linux. 

Consequently I backed up the whole kadoodle, and - just to try it out -
installed Mandrake 8.1. Took an hour or two, but otherwise OK, mouse,
trackpoint, soundcard, PCMCIA, modem, printer, screen etc... everything.

BUT, of course, it runs slooow. Too slow on KDE to be useful, reasonably
fast on XFCe. Snappy on CLI. The kernel is the stock 8.1-one
(2.4.8.26mdk). Well, then I decided to go back to OS/2, but - having a
spare afternoon - I felt like playing a little. So I found an old
Mandrake 7.0 and installed that. What a difference !

Everything works. And fast ! (using it right now). I'll place my OS/2 in
a safe place and maybe forget about it.

Naturally though, your mail has made me curious : If 8.2 runs faster
than 8.1 maybe I'll try that too because, after all I'm a bit addicted
to aesthetics, I admit.

And here's my question : will 8.2. brake the "natural law" that dictates
every new version to be slower than the previous one ? - IOW : can 8.2
run reasonably fast on my old laptop ?

Can I have your opinion, please ?

TIA

Kaj Haulrich
Denmark



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