On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 09:24:49AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Yes and no. For 99% of what I do, my 486 is fine. Although, after > doing a drive-shell game to get Etch on it (it only has 32 MB ram so > the installer doesn't work), its really much slower than sarge and > certainly slower than woody. Text-mode scrolling (no framebuffer) and > cursor movement, as in arrow-down in mc or lynx, is jerky and slow. > OTOH, Net- or Open-BSD run great on it. That 99% of what I do is > text-based. Konquerer is too painful (the other 1%). OTOH, now that > I've got an Athlon64 with 1 GB ram, and dual 80 GB drives (raid1 for the > system), I've got lots of room. OTOH, Stuff just takes up more and more > memory. OTOH, there are no other hands (from __Fiddler_on_the_Roof__) > :) > Check your locale settings. I think that starting with Etch, the default locale is set to a UTF8 locale. That means that every application has to treat everything as unicode. AIUI, that makes things slower. This is espcially noticable on an older machine.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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