[nylug-talk] distro recommendations (cjk input and other concerns)

[Allen Shaw]

Ah Pook wrote:

>On Monday 16 October 2006 11:16 am, Allen Shaw wrote:
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>>    - Processor: AMD K6-2 / 500Mhz
>>    - RAM: 312 MB
>>    - HDD: 8 GB
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>I have a Gentoo box running KDE on that.  It's not killer fast, but it 
>doesn't drive the owner nuts (that I've heard).  [Anecdote: I had 
>FreeBSD KDE on that one for a time, and it was noticeably snappier.  
>It's all the same to her, right?  :-)] 
>
Finally I decided to go with ubuntu, which seems to be nice enough, and 
got me everything I wanted.  But the machine is running very slow -- 
even with IceWM running in place of xfce.  Processor pegs out just 
loading simple web sites.  Not sure why, though, if you report 
reletively decent operation w/ KDE.  Bummer. Looks like I'll have to 
look for better hardware.

Thanks for your comments, though.  Very helpful.

- A.

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