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

[Kevin Mark]

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On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 09:28:33AM +0000, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
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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
> > > >>   
> > 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).
> 
Hi chili-man,
that is a good point. There is xubuntu, although, I dont know if it also
includes gnome/kde libs under the hood. maybe worth a look.
cheers,
Kev
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