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

[Allen Shaw]

Kevin Mark wrote:

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>On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 09:28:33AM +0000, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
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>>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).
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>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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Indeed, this is xubuntu I'm talking about. Specifically intended to get 
snappier performance out of slower hardware, defaults to xfce but uses 
some gnome libraries. From what I've heard, this setup should be -- and 
could be -- responding better than it is. Unfortunately, with my limited 
skills (and limited time commitment to improve them) probabaly the best 
I can do is throw hardware at it.

Thanks,
Allen

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