Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 22, 2006 10:01 PM
I installed the latest dapper on my AMD64 X2 3800 with 4G ram and a raptor harddrive. I used the latest preemptible kernel with smp support. Unfortunately, the installation turned out to be annoyingly slow compared to my regular Debian Unstable installation. Ooffice would take several seconds longer launching, firefox took a good three seconds and even gnome-terminal took a second to launch.
I was very disappointed. I've used many distributions of GNU/Linux since 1999, on several architectures, and feel certain that the slow speed was not a fault of mine.
I don't need my desktop to be greased lightning, but when for once I have good hardware I want my OS to be snappy. Ubuntu just wasn't.
Hopefully this will be fixed until july 1. I'll give Dapper another try then.
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Re:Ubuntu Slow?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 22, 2006 10:01 PMI was very disappointed. I've used many distributions of GNU/Linux since 1999, on several architectures, and feel certain that the slow speed was not a fault of mine.
I don't need my desktop to be greased lightning, but when for once I have good hardware I want my OS to be snappy. Ubuntu just wasn't.
Hopefully this will be fixed until july 1. I'll give Dapper another try then.
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