On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:07:59AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > 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. >
Thanks. Its probably set to en_CA.UTF-8. I'm not convinced I need it on any of my systems. Having some UTF and others 'C' makes it a pain when ssh-ing back and forth, running things like mutt and mc, and runing X apps. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
