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On Monday 05 Dec 2011 20:20:38 Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Indi <thebeelzebubtrigger@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 06:40:03PM +0100, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:10 PM, LinuxIsOne <linuxisone@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Indi <thebeelzebubtrigger@×××××.com> |
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wrote: |
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> >> >> In fact, I like gentoo and FreeBSD best for low-spoec hardware. |
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> >> > What does low-spec hardware mean? |
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> >> Whatever the default setup of the latest release of Ubuntu runs |
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> >> sluggish on. (Or what a previous version of Ubuntu ran on, but current |
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> >> versions won't) |
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> >> While somewhat flippant, that seems a pretty reasonable way to think |
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> >> about it. |
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> > Seems to me Ubuntu is sluggish no matter what hardware you have. |
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> That's why I gave the description I did. What seems sluggish to you |
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> may not seem sluggish to me. It certainly won't seem sluggish to my |
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> grandmother... |
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> It tunes itself very nicely to the perceptions and needs of the |
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> individual in question. |
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I no longer run Gentoo on my Pentium IBM laptop - let's face it with 72M RAM |
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even fluxbox was a bit sluggish! Ha! |
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I do however run it on my 1998 vintage Pentium 3 laptop and before that on a |
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Pentium 3 Coppermine. KDE is sluggish and rebuilding KDE takes a day or so. |
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That's why I don't run a full KDE ... ;p Only some KDE apps on e17. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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