It's just your computer, I think. With a K6 233, 64mbyte RAM I was running tripwire, cron started updatedb, I was online using kvirc and licq, my PC was acting like a PDC for my internal network and some friends were logged in my shell service (for friends only). I know I am not alone in having this problem, and I cannot find anyone who can
Meanwhile, I was burning a CD at 4x. The buffer has never been under 96%. Have you tried this with Windows? I did it with a much better hardware: but it was a failure.
Other apps that do not have an alternative, Photoshop, PagePlus, Quickbooks, Turbocad.
Have you looked around? http://freshmeat.net No I haven't, but from what I have heard here and elsewhere the alternatives are not up to the same standard. They are also programs that have there own
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:22:13 +0100, Praise wrote: provide a solution. I saw a message here earlier today that suggested using locate in terminal to find files. That is quick even when looking through the Windows partitions. Do that in Konqueror and it will take forever. So that seems to say that the base is ok, is it the way KDE integrates with the kernel (or whatever). If that is the case is there any way of improving KDE performance? particular way of doing things and it is difficult to change to another just for the sake of it. This applies equally to win apps.
When you load programs, there does not seem to be any control of where they go. In Win you are given a choice of where they install, and which program title they can be located. Do it in Linux and it just disappears. I spend ages looking through the menus (and they are so complicated in KDE) and you don't find it. I do not see why a simple install manager cannot be created.
rpm is there! Did you know it?
Yes, but what about tar
You cant choose where to put stuff because it was decided by the standard. Everything has a standard location, it's an ancient Unix attitude. Tell the distros that, everyone seems to have their own idea of where things should live..
You can go through the disk and know what you are looking at in Unix too. You only need to get informed on what does those dirs mean:-)
I am not really knocking Linux, although it seems so, just giving my views coming from Windows, and if you want to encourage Windows users it should be made easier.
Installing packages is as easy as writing rpm -ivh packagename.rpm
Regards, David dg@stanwater.fsnet.co.uk on 13/11/2001