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

[wdg3rd@comcast.net]

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From: Kevin Mark <kevin.mark at verizon.net>
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> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Allen Shaw wrote:
> > Ah Pook wrote:
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> > >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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> 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

Might could also be that all of the libraries Ubuntu keeps handy for Gnome and KDE requests could also be dogging things down, even while using a lighter display manager.  My one Ubunto setup (with Gnome) seems fast enough though with only 256mb RAM and 333 Mhz, but then again I'm a fossil who is known to compile things on a Tandy 6000 Xenix box (8MHz 68000) with 768kb (that's k, not m) of RAM.  (Just testing backward compatibility of some text-based tools and games -- most such tests fail miserably, the last update to Tandy Xenix was years before Posix was a standard, possibly before it was conceived).  My time sense may be skewed.  (I used to wait several hours for a kernel to compile -- I always had a book).

You kids today are spoiled.  I'm not opposed to _wanting_ instant gratification, but it's not always wise to expect it.
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