Post by j***@yahoo.comDon't even waste your time gilbert.
These Linux nutballs will blame you and activate a campaign attacking
your credibility and claiming you screwed up the install, yet in the
same breath they will tell noobs how easy Linux is to install.
insert CD, boot, qtparted, partition, knx2hd, go for coffee, come back,
log in. How *hard* is that??
Post by j***@yahoo.comHey Linux kooks, ya can't have it both ways.
Seems to me the OP went well beyond the ordanairy stuff yet he is still
stuck with a slow Linux system.
that's down to a: his hardware setup, and b: his configuration.
Post by j***@yahoo.comThe REAL TRUTH is Linux is SLOW......It is VERY SLOW....and while it
may be free that doesn't change a thing.....
what in the hell has it being free (not necessarily as in beer, more
along the lines of "free-dom*) got to do with anything?
Post by j***@yahoo.comVideo is VERY SLOW compared to Windows because X is sluggish and
Windows runs video at Ring 0 giving VERY FAST response compared to
Linux which is SLOW.
benchmarks?
Post by j***@yahoo.comMy advice is to trash Linux and use a real OS like Win2003Server.
ok. I'm gonna puke now.
Post by j***@yahoo.comThe time you save will be money in the bank.
now I'm puking *and* laughing my arse off! Where did you get /that/
chunk of bovine residue from?
Post by j***@yahoo.comPost by Gilbert HochaimI'm running on a PIV 3.0ghz with 2 gig of memory and this thing is
pitiful.
Sorry to hear that.
Post by j***@yahoo.comPost by Gilbert HochaimOpenOffice takes 35 seconds to start.
Microsoft Office takes 4 seconds.
Try installing Linux with just the analogues of what you'd find in a
base Windows install. Then install OpenOffice. Then try.
Post by j***@yahoo.comPost by Gilbert HochaimFirefox takes 12 seconds to start.
Internet Explorer takes 2 seconds.
Ditto.
Bear in mind that IE is fundamentally tied to MS-Windows in such a way
that its dependencies are already resident in memory the second you're
shown the desktop.
Try Firefox on Windows, then Firefox on Linux, and give a fair comparison.
Not this FUD bullshit.
Post by j***@yahoo.comPost by Gilbert HochaimK3b takes 6 minutes to burn a 650mb CD at a so called 32x.
Nero takes about 1.5 minutes and burns at 50x. There is no way of
changing the 32x for Linux, it keeps rejecting it.
In perfect conditions:
32x=4.8MB/sec=135.41sec/650MB ISO
50x=7.5MB/sec=86.6sec/650MB ISO
Where's the rest of the time gone? OK, let's be generous and double the
time to allow caching over a 100MBit network.
Where's the rest of the time gone?
OK, let's be generous and assume that you're using a ATA33 bus.
max speed possible is 33/8=4.125MB/sec
so your burner, assuming it's on a seperate channel from the source hard
disk, burns at a maximum 28.16x, on either Nero or K3B.
For a 650MB ISO, that takes 153.88sec.
A tad under three minutes.
I call bullshit on your numbers. Mine may be slightly off, too; I did
them in my head and it's nearly 3am.
Post by j***@yahoo.comPost by Gilbert HochaimKontact is a slug that has serious screen repaint troubles.
It takes forever to load and when it is loading, moving the mouse
leaves all kinds of trails.
try configuring your graphics properly, and turn off mouse trails. Other
than that, I guess that's a software bug.
Post by j***@yahoo.comPost by Gilbert HochaimCopying files between drives gives about 4.5mb/sec when Windows is
doing 20mb/sec+ and yes DMA is turned on,
I get better than that copying usb-usb over LAN. What's your setup?
Post by j***@yahoo.comPost by Gilbert HochaimLeaving a CD in the CDROM drive creates tons of error messaged in
/var/logs about missing sectors and so forth.
yes, that's what's supposed to happen. Linux isn't Windows, it's not
forgiving of stupidity or substandard media.
Post by j***@yahoo.comPost by Gilbert HochaimI can't burn large files to DVD, they crash although they work fine
with Nero and Windows.
K3B under Knoppix/Debian requires that you configure a CDFS
partition/image before you can burn a DVD. Perhaps try this?
WHICH distribution?
Post by j***@yahoo.comPost by Gilbert HochaimIs THIS the system that is going to put Microsoft out of business?
That is not the intention. Linux is intended to give users a: /choice/
in what their hardware and software does for them, and b: /freedom/ to
configure their system how /they/ want it.
Post by j***@yahoo.comPost by Gilbert HochaimIf that's the current train of thought, Microsoft must be laughing
their asses off because nobody but an idiot would hammerlock their
system back into the 90's by running this garbage.
Glibert
WEll, can't say as I'm sorry to hear that you choose to lock yourself in
to a company that decides for you. BTW, creationism is dead. Long live
evolution!
./me takes a bow.
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