While Ubuntu may not be the "fastest" distro available, I hardly find it slow. It runs perfectly fine on my daughter's (who is 8 years old) laptop which is a P500 with 128 megs of ram. I also run it on several kiosk type computers, which are mostly p300's with 128 megs of ram. No, it's not the fastest thing in the world, but, it's not all that slow. Once Dapper is released, you should also see a speed improvement due to the pre-emptive kernel.
As far as using Gentoo on a desktop, I personally wouldn't. It makes a great server os, however, if I want to upgrade KDE (for instance), I would have to sit there quite a while before my system is snappy again.
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Posted by: FrdPrefct on March 21, 2006 11:20 PMAs far as using Gentoo on a desktop, I personally wouldn't. It makes a great server os, however, if I want to upgrade KDE (for instance), I would have to sit there quite a while before my system is snappy again.
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