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Subject: Re: Has the performance been forgotten?
From: Sam Clegg <sam () superduper ! net>
Date: 2004-10-11 9:03:01
Message-ID: 20041011090301.GA5343 () magicboy
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On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 11:55:35PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > been forgotten. Trust me, some of us have been making posts about
> > > low-end machines for a long time, and have every interest in
> > > trying to help.
> > It works just fine on my Vaio C1XD (Mobile Pentium II 400 Mhz, 192 Mb
> > RAM) =:-D
>
>
> Same here, I see allot of posts about 'GNOME is so slow'. But I've not
> seen it, performance seems good to me. Nautilus, et al, is pretty
> snappy; and I noodle around tar.gz's in file-roller all the time without
> ever more than a couple of seconds of drive grinding.
I agree, with the exception of gnome-terminal I have recently
found to be >10x slower than xterm. I don't know the reasons for
this (could be the ttf fonts) but I have found it nececcary to
switch back to xterm for most of work that involves lots of
output.
sam
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