On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 07:51:10AM +0930, Romana Challans scrawled: > Peter Gossner wrote: > >Mandrake has some (to a Debianite at least) quirks in some configs that > >I best leave to Mandrake people to explain,( best to use DrakeConf or > >whatever the thing is called) .. > >Both the Installer and desktop (KDE 3) are really slow on low RAM (< > >64meg) boxen , does cheap partitioning and strange things with groups / > >root that I didn't have the time to really investigate on site. > >I am not sure why it ignores /etc/hostname either but functionally that > >seemed to make no difference. > >It would be great for 128meg boxes. > >To my mind performance is way too slow even at 64meg (It's a shame but > >KDE 3 / QT3 is still doing its usual ram suck). Well, only if you leave everything disabled. Klipper, the clipboard daemon (clipboard icon, sits in the system tray) is a huge hit that almost no end-user will use. Disable it. Take out the organizer icon next to you, and make sure the alarm daemon isn't started on startup (it's an option when you right-click it). Make sure /tmp/.ICE-unix is always owned by root. There are a few tricks like this you can do to squeeze that extra little bit of performance out. Using this method of disabling what I didn't need, I had a perfectly working and complete KDE install, usable on a P100 with 64mb of RAM. This was with KDE2, mind, which was before the great speedup that was KDE3. > >As an "office/ MS replacement" it probably rocks and of course that call > >is one that the end users should make. > >I would feel comfortable offering the default Mandrake to our end users > >as long as they could see it next to a proper Unix and probably without > >any "desktop environment" or at least Gnome 2 as a somewhat faster > >alternative. I guess Mandrake will offer Gnome2 with their next release. > > (and yes I know that can be confusing). While GNOME has its place, it does not belong on the desktops of Windows end-user refugees. -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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