Re: knoppix slow

2004-02-27 Thread Stephen Cormier
On February 26, 2004 06:48 am, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hello, > A colleague of mine has installed knoppix 3.3 on his 350Mhz K2 > machine and he has found it to be much slower than win 98. Can > anyone suggest why this is so anmd how to fix the problem? > > Gavin. > -- > Dr Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PR

knoppix slow

2004-02-26 Thread Dr Gavin Seddon
Hello, A colleague of mine has installed knoppix 3.3 on his 350Mhz K2 machine and he has found it to be much slower than win 98. Can anyone suggest why this is so anmd how to fix the problem? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Manchester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: knoppix slow

2004-02-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Dr Gavin Seddon (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > A colleague of mine has installed knoppix 3.3 on his 350Mhz K2 machine > and he has found it to be much slower than win 98. Can anyone suggest > why this is so anmd how to fix the problem? Does he use KDE or Gnome? They need much more rescour

Re: knoppix slow

2004-02-26 Thread Moritz Beller
Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > Dr Gavin Seddon (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> A colleague of mine has installed knoppix 3.3 on his 350Mhz K2 machine >> and he has found it to be much slower than win 98. Can anyone suggest >> why this is so anmd how to fix the problem?

Re: knoppix slow

2004-02-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:48:50AM +0100, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > A colleague of mine has installed knoppix 3.3 on his 350Mhz K2 machine > and he has found it to be much slower than win 98. Can anyone suggest > why this is so anmd how to fix the prob

Re: knoppix slow

2004-02-26 Thread Kai Schindelka
Paul Johnson wrote: A colleague of mine has installed knoppix 3.3 on his 350Mhz K2 machine ^ Install it to the hard drive instead of running it from the CD ROM. Sorry for nitpicking, but he already has done so. -- Bye, Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: knoppix slow

2004-02-26 Thread David Baron
I do not find KDE noticeably slower than Win98. Windows is optimized with icon caching and other goodies to speed up some desktop operations. Knoppix detects hardware on bootup and sets up the KDE desktop, after that is not active. One thing that will be much slower is any animated application

Re: knoppix slow

2004-02-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please don't top post, it destroys context. http://learn.to/quote On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:07:56PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > I do not find KDE noticeably slower than Win98. Windows is optimized > with icon caching and other goodies to speed up so