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 -- sam clegg :: sam superduper net :: http://superduper.net/ :: PGP : D91EE369 $superduper: .signature,v 1.13 2003/06/17 10:29:24 sam Exp $
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