I use Merkaartor on my laptop and are happy with the speed.  Its a C++ app so 
appears more responsive than  JOSM on my laptop.

http://www.merkaartor.org/

There are packages for ubuntu or you can compile from source if you have the 
Qt libraries installed.

Evan

On Thursday 27 Aug 2009 11:00:29 Sam Couter wrote:
> Cosmic Charade <cosmichar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I use Ubuntu with xfce so a similar setup but it runs like a dog on
> > mine for some reason.... maybe I installed the wrong version of Java
> > or I need to run with some command line options?
> 
> My laptop is lower powered than yours and JOSM works okay. You need the
> Sun JRE, it won't work with OpenJDK. The only command line options I use
> are to set the HTTP proxy.
> 

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