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Thank again! I will do just that, as I have plenty of space on my hd. |
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As I'm relatively new to Linux, I've been playing around with different alternatives. Of course Gentoo was the choice after some tries and yes, I've built my own kernel, from stage1. |
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So far, XFCE4 with some light and fast theme (glider, for instance) seems to be fair enough for what i do. |
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Although I've emerged OOo, as you say is overkill. Abiword is pretty fine. |
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But I still don't have the responsiveness while using one application, that I had with windoze XP on the same system. Of course you wouldn't compare the stability, security, design, etc that Linux and particularily Gentoo offers, but I think that with the right tuning, at least I could get the same responsiveness. |
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For instance, I use Thunderbird for mail and RSS, but I find it extremely slow, mainly when switching windows (write mail, go back to inbox, move to folder dragging-and-dropping, etc). |
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The concern I have is that after emerging so many things, perhaps it will be a good idea to build a _new_ gentoo system with just what I want/choose. |
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I will do the tests and anything worth comenting I will follow-up here. |
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Thanks again. |
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Willy. |
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----- Mensaje original ----- |
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De: Jonathan Smith <smithj@g.o> |
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Fecha: Miércoles, Junio 29, 2005 6:39 pm |
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Asunto: Re: [gentoo-performance] Resources for Gentoo Desktop Performance Tuning |
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> > Thank you Jonathan... so perhaps moving to jfs could make it? It |
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> seems from googling around that its CPU usage is constantly low. |
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> Any experiences with it? |
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> > Thanks in advance, Willy. |
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> i have no experience with that. on my servers, i use xfs, and it does |
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> well. on my lower end machines and desktops i run ext3. even though it |
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> personally, i would wipe my harddrive, try out a couple of FSs and see |
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> which you like. overall, though, FS choice isn't going to be the |
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> sureto use a small and fast WM. also, be wary of running large |
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> OOo all the time, and be sure, as always, to excise unnecessary |
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> if you have not already done so, rolling your own kernel is a _must_. |
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> ensure that nothing is built into the kernel that isn't needed. |
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