Matt Jurcich wrote:
I would say upgrading definately gives you a system that is slower then a fresh install. I did an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 and YAST would take like 10 seconds to open. I formatted and reinstalled fresh this afternoon and YAST now takes 2-3 bounces of the mouse cursor--much better.
My latop is a IBM Thinkpad X31 with PM-1.4GHz and 768MB RAM, 5400 40gb HD. Runs very nicely on it since I reinstalled-was a dog with just the upgrade. All my hardware works, too, right out of the box!
-m
Thom Nuzum
06/29 5:39 pm >>> Well, that's certainly not true for all hardware. I've got a 300MHz
PII
laptop that ran fairly well with 8.2. Its performance under 9.0 was,
to
say the least, abysmal. I was beginning to think it had finally
reached
the end of its usefullness as my desktop for work, unless I wanted to
stick with 8.2. Then I installed 9.1 on it and, boy howdee, it runs
great again. In fact, it feels faster than 8.2.
Steve
Same here. 9.1 on my dual boot laptop has been a success compared to 9.0:
only exception is the touchpad not working, though I gave up on that and
prefer a mouse anyway.
It works fine on my ThinkPad and the Trackpoint "mouse" works fine, after adding a kernel parameter.