Not really a question, but a little insight.
I am an avid Slackware Linux user, but on seeing Suse 9.1 available for download I thought I would give it a go. The install is flawless, with its auto-configuration, although I see nothing wrong with Slackwares curses install. A little while later it was installed. I couldnt get grub boot loader to play nicely with XP so it went in the MBR.
I reboot and this is the disappointment... it is REALLY slow, granted nice, but nothing really new. I have a pretty good spec machine and Slack flies compared with Suse. DMA was on but it just seemed to take forever to boot, and sluggish when it gets there. Do you reckon it was the new kernel? I tried 2.6 with Slack and it seemed even faster.
SO on seeing 10.0 Slackware out I got rid of Suse, and am back at home.
Rob
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 19:38, Robert Frusher wrote:
I reboot and this is the disappointment... it is REALLY slow, granted nice, but nothing really new. I have a pretty good spec machine and Slack flies compared with Suse. DMA was on but it just seemed to take forever to boot, and sluggish when it gets there. Do you reckon it was the new kernel? I tried 2.6 with Slack and it seemed even faster.
Hi - I tried out the 9.1 download over the weekend on my tosh m30-604 laptop and it flies - boots up quicker than my usual setup which is SUSE Pro 9.1 as I have more stuff installed to start up (apache, mysql, etc.). Pro also comes with 2 nice big manuals which make life a little easier - apart from that it's all the same (as all SUSE versions work on same codebase).
If you press F2 while booting you'll be able to see where it's slowing down or anything unecessary for your use you could remove then can edit scripts in yast. A couple of things have notes by them saying how you can remove them to improve startup speed. Also do a 'top' to see if anything's clogging up. X and KDE are the most hungry - you can do stuff to optimise or use a different window manager or go old school and refuse to run one... :-)
Did it find the correct display drivers? I'm still figuring out my NVIDIA ones - nice to provide them but wish they would release the source. Wireless is another headache too still :( Just hard finding the time and energy to sort it out!
Steve
Vice Versa Rob! I was a Suse user for quite a while and I was begining to think of upgrading my pooter (1.4GHz Athlon). However installing Slack 9.1 was a revelation - my pooter kicks butt now.
If I could just suss out this pkgtool and how it handles dependencies I would be totally in lurve....
Martin
On Monday 28 Jun 2004 6:38 pm, Robert Frusher wrote:
Not really a question, but a little insight.
I am an avid Slackware Linux user, but on seeing Suse 9.1 available for download I thought I would give it a go.
I reboot and this is the disappointment... it is REALLY slow, granted nice, but nothing really new.
Rob
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