Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-14 Thread Mike Fieschko
>>> "Josh" == Josh McCaffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I started Josh> recompiling the kernel a couple of times, and each time it Josh> failed (I forget why) after choosing to save the new kernel, Josh> so in /usr/src there are "linux-2.2.13" and Josh> "linux-2.2.13.old"

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-14 Thread Mark Fitzgerald
Morris Walton wrote: > > some form of the ps command i suppose > > Morris Walton wrote: > > > > Is there an easy way (ie command-line) to see what processes are > > eating into cpu occupancy? Click the K / then System / then taskmanager, It Will give you some info on what is running, performanc

RE: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-14 Thread Warren Rowe
- From: Josh McCaffrey [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 January 2000 18:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow?? Try "Xconfigurator" at the command prompt. After you choose your video card, monitor specs, etc., try choosing mor

RE: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-14 Thread Warren Rowe
Xconfigurator or xf86config -Original Message- From: JAMIL HUSSAIN [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 January 2000 18:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow?? josh i installed linux on my machine, but the resolution is set incorrectly, i

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Josh McCaffrey
> > I started > Josh> recompiling the kernel a couple of times, and each time it > Josh> failed (I forget why) after choosing to save the new kernel, > Josh> so in /usr/src there are "linux-2.2.13" and > Josh> "linux-2.2.13.old" folders, and the 2 files generated by > Josh> m

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread John
type "top" - Original Message - From: Morris Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 10:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow?? > Is there an easy way (ie command-line) to see what processes are &g

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Morris Walton
some form of the ps command i suppose Morris Walton wrote: > > Is there an easy way (ie command-line) to see what processes are > eating into cpu occupancy? > > morris > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Alan Shoemaker wrote: > > > > Elizabeth/michaeljust a guess, but did you use lnx4win to > > insta

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Morris Walton
Is there an easy way (ie command-line) to see what processes are eating into cpu occupancy? morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alan Shoemaker wrote: > > Elizabeth/michaeljust a guess, but did you use lnx4win to > install Linux? If so, then a "real" installation (where Linux > has it's own partition

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Elizabeth/michaeljust a guess, but did you use lnx4win to install Linux? If so, then a "real" installation (where Linux has it's own partitions on the hard drive) of Linux will greatly speed up the system performance. On the other hand if my guess was wrong, here's another guess. Do you pos

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Mike Fieschko
>>> "Josh" == Josh McCaffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Josh> Seth Gibson wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Josh McCaffrey wrote: > desired results. >> There has never been any intention to make Linux perform > well >> for everybody straight out of the box. Tho i think we are >

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Josh McCaffrey
Seth Gibson wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Josh McCaffrey wrote: > > desired results. There has never been any intention to make Linux perform > > well for everybody straight out of the box. > Tho i think we are seeing that change more and more with Things like lizard and > such. . .me personally

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Josh McCaffrey
> i installed linux on my machine, but the resolution is set incorrectly, i > cant see all the screen, what caommand do i use to change the res. > > >From: Josh McCaffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject:

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread JAMIL HUSSAIN
josh i installed linux on my machine, but the resolution is set incorrectly, i cant see all the screen, what caommand do i use to change the res. >From: Josh McCaffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] is linu

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Seth Gibson
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Josh McCaffrey wrote: > desired results. There has never been any intention to make Linux perform > well for everybody straight out of the box. Tho i think we are seeing that change more and more with Things like lizard and such. . .me personally, when i installed mdk the fir

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Mark Fitzgerald
Hi, Win and Linux .. speend. Linux is much faster the win98 on my box. Mark -- ***Mark Fitzgerald (0-0) Campobello Island, NB, Canada. I need a new .sig. ***

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Josh McCaffrey
I think it all depends on how much extra support is compiled into your kernel that you're not using or maybe during install when you chose services you want started at boot time you chose alot you're not using either. Linux takes a little tweaking to get type of setup you want, but it's very fle

Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??

2000-01-13 Thread Hugh Semmler
Well I cant speak for anybody else , But my computer runs at least twice as fast as win98. On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: > i have mandrake 6.1 and i have win98se. > i use win98se quite alot and i found that it is much faster then linux > is that meant to be the case?? > the kernel installed is