On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:17 PM, tom arnall <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. <snip> > Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhappy with the speed of it. > > Any info/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
I run Debian Wheezy with a stock kernel on my aging Toshiba Tecra A8. It has a 1.7GHz Core Duo with 2GB of RAM. With xfce performance is acceptable, ie much better than heavy-weight DEs like KDE or GNOME but still leaves some room for improvement. Instead, I use openbox and there is a noticeable improvement in speed and resource usage. It took me a little while to adjust to such a minimal environment especially when coming from GNOME or even xfce but now I much prefer it, even on faster systems. Hope this helps. -- Pete Orrall [email protected] www.peteorrall.com "If there isn't a way, I'll make one." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cab43j+lleio4i_9uwy+zbb1bnja0yj63kchqpohu6b98oum...@mail.gmail.com
