Re: {OT} Interesting view on Windows/Linux+Wine
Vincent wrote:
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> Jeremy Peterson wrote:
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> > Uh, it's jerEmy, not jerAmy. Why do you keep using a instead of e?
>
> Sorry about that. I must have gotten used to using Jeramy or Jeremi. You see
> I have two friends named Jeramy and Jeremi and greet them online by using one
> of those.
That's okay, just wondering.
> > Notice I said Mandrake 10.0, which is not the latest version. I didn't
> > optimize
> anything,</font></i>
> > so no secrets. Is your CPU a pentium or Amd, because it might run slower
> > with
> > AMD's.
>
> Mandrake 10.0 used KDE 3.2 I believe. I think KDE 3.5 is basically the same
> except for maybe QT and K bug fixes and minor speed improvements. It could be
> that Mandrake came with an optimized default KDE desktop. There must be alot
> of things I can do to improve speed if you can get smooth performance on a old
> computer. But I have read online that it is recommended to have 384 to 512 MB
> of RAM and a 800 MHz to 1 GHz processor to use the latest Gnome and KDE
> desktops
> at decent speeds. But if it isn't great on my machine then something might be
> wrong.
>
> I don't see why AMD chips would be slower on Linux but my computer is a
> Pentium
> 4 Northwood.
>
> Regards,
> Vincent
There's a certain balance of virtual and regular memory that you need to achieve
to get good performance. Maybe you set it so it uses a lot more swap space,
which could slow it down.
Jeremy
Edmund Burke: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do
nothing."
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