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

[Allen Shaw]

Kevin Mark wrote:

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>On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Allen Shaw wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Thanks for your comments, though.  Very helpful.
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>>- A.
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>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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Hi Kev, thanks for chiming in. I haven't worked with hdparm before, but 
I will look into it. For the swap I just took the defaults when 
installing xubuntu, and it looks like I have around 360 megs for swap 
(right? fdisk reports 369463 blocks...). Still, I was hoping not to have 
to go to swap just to open a web page; thought the RAM would handle it 
on its own.

- A.

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