I met a guy at a Windows Server event yesterday. He told me that he has
a 2.4GB Athalon with 2GB of memory. He tells me that it is slow to load
(eg. sluggish). And, in his own words:
"Windows XP boots faster, is more responsive, and the GUI is
quick compared to what has happened in the Linux releases of the last
year".
He initially had been using GNOME, but switched to KDE (Red Hat 8).
Also, he built the kernel optimized for Athalon. The one issue I don't
know is whether he is using DMA or not.
He is considering using SuSE, but I would like to see if anyone on this
forum can add some insight based on the scant bit of information I have
posted. My home system is a 700Mhz P3 and my laptop is a 1.2Ghz P3.
Mozilla and OpenOffice tend to be slow to load because they are huge,
but I don't see any sluggishness.
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Jerry Feldman