[newbie] Speed [was Re: Recommended office suites?]

2001-12-27 Thread robin
Civileme wrote: KDE _is_ a memory hog since it does aq whole lot more than a similar Windows GUI these days. Now the reason I recommend kerbel 2.2 is that the stock 2.4 kernels available this version do swap a lot--the newer 2.4 kernels have a better volume manager/ virtual memory,

Re: [newbie] Speed [was Re: Recommended office suites?]

2001-12-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:14:25 +0200, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Civileme wrote: KDE _is_ a memory hog since it does aq whole lot more than a similar Windows GUI these days. Now the reason I recommend kerbel 2.2 is that the stock 2.4 kernels available this version do swap a

Re: [newbie] Speed [was Re: Recommended office suites?]

2001-12-27 Thread robin
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Well, there are the basics (which can apply to any desktop or OS), like not using desktop wallpaper, using minimal themes (the default is quite fast), no unnecessary sounds, use small and fast apps, etc. Just installed the high performance liquid theme. Looks pretty