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Re: [Mgs] OFF TOPIC - COMPUTERS

To: "Councill, David" <dcouncill@msubillings.edu>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] OFF TOPIC - COMPUTERS
From: Steve <temporarilyoffline@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:00:54 -0400
Running EXT4 helps speed things up quite a bit.

Have you run HDPARM to optimize your disk access?

How big is your swap file?

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Councill,
David<dcouncill@msubillings.edu> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Actually, you're asking the wrong question.
> The answer to the
> question you should be asking
> is "Linux."   :-)
>
> -------
>
> To this, I would say - only if you don't want an answer.
>
> I have dabbled quite a bit with Linux the past few years, ironically I
> think it is mostly because of this list and a previous discussion that
> mentioned Ubuntu a year or two ago. I have been impressed on some of the
> recent advances with Linux and am now running one computer, two laptops
> and some virtual machines with Linux, mostly using Debian (similar to
> Ubuntu but I like it better). But invariably I end up fighting a bug
> with some sort of a workaround or going to the Linux discussion groups
> only to find no answers thus limiting how far I can get into Linux. In a
> way, Linux is not too different from MGBs in that it can involve a lot
> of dabbling or tuning, a catharsis of sorts.
>
> Funny too that Barrie's question on increasing performance, I could
> apply to my latest venture with Debian Lenny. Its running on a 64 bit
> dual boot, 4 GB RAM with Win2008 Server as the other OS. Linux boots up
> fine but programs are slow to load afterwards, i.e. IceWeasel (Firefox)
> where I click on it a couple of times with no response then 10-15
> seconds later, I get several windows pop up at the same time. Not so
> with the Windows part. I had the same problem but worse with Mandrake
> several years ago so I abandoned it (figured it was the computer I had).
> Not so this time since I have a dual boot to compare. Is there a fix for
> that, to get better responsiveness out of Linux?
>
> Linux has some benefits but I would only recommend it to fairly computer
> literate people with time on their hands to play with it (unless they
> are doing the bare minimum of tasks, say web access only). It is pretty
> cool you can run the Linux OS off a CD or even install the entire OS
> with some floppies and a network connection. But at the end of the day,
> I still need Windows when it comes to handling all my computer desires
> and programs even though I have tried the other alternatives - Linux and
> Mac. They are closing the gap admittedly but not quite.
>
>
> David Councill
> 67 BGT
> 72 B
> 73 B
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