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

[Kevin Mark]

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On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Allen Shaw wrote:
> Ah Pook wrote:
> 
> >On Monday 16 October 2006 11:16 am, Allen Shaw wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>   - Processor: AMD K6-2 / 500Mhz
> >>   - RAM: 312 MB
> >>   - HDD: 8 GB
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >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.
Hi Allen,
hmm maybe hdparm is not set to turn on dma or multi-byte transfers?
312mb seems like more than adequet for xfce or icewm. I'm using 192mb
for enlightenment and its just about bearable, so 312mb seem enought. Do
you have a 600-700mb swap partition? maybe put it on a second hd?
cheers,
Kev
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