[TriLUG] comments on Mandrake and Red Hat stability

[Michael Thompson]

I have RH 8.0 installed on a Compaq Presario with an AMD k6 500mhz.  Its
not screaming, but its very tolerable (comparable speed to win98 on the
same machine) and has not crashed once since it was installed a few weeks
ago.  OpenOffice does take a while to load, but it runs well.

(This machine started with 64mb of ram and ran painfully slow, found a
128mb upgrade on sale at Best Buy for $5 after rebates and saw a huge
difference.)


Michael W. Thompson
thompson at easternrad.com

> On Thursday 14 November 2002 09:3221pm, Chris Hedemark wrote:
>> On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 09:31 PM, Sinner from the Prairy
>> wrote:
>> > We have set up both at work. Both are smoking fast Linux distros.
>
>> Be careful, those boxes you're running on are smoking (are these the
>> dual athlon boxes?).  They could even make Windows seem fast.  But
>
> Yes, they are the dual athlons. Specifically the *new* dual athlons.
> Anyway, they are "nascar going downhill" fast, compared to the expected
> "I-40 at night" fast.
>
>> something more interesting is further down:
>> > gcc-3.2 rulez :) And KDE 3 is faster. Specialy at home, using my
>> K6-II-400. KDE 3 compares very favorable with KDE-2.2.2 compiled
>> with objprelink.
>
>> Ahhh now if it seems fast on a K6-II-400 then I find that to be more
>> of a credit to the distro than the hardware.  :-)
>
> That's my point. If they flyon an athlon and my K6-II goes very agile
> with a KDE with lots of "unnecesary features" like hi-colour icons,
> transparencies, heavy themes, wallpapers, animations, and
> name-your-cpu-sucker-feature-here .... And, of course, heavy desktop
> usage, xmms, galeon, kmail, cd-burning, gaim...  One thing though:
> OpenOffice still takes forever to start.
>
>> Chris Hedemark (temporarily stuck at home)
>
> Broken car?
>
>> Hillsborough, NC
>> http://yonderway.com
>
>
> Salut,
> Sinner
> --
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>
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