Brian <lxy at cloudnet.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > > > Mark, > > > > Windows 1998 is being compared to Linux 2001. > > Yup, I'd have to agree. kernel 2.4, X 4.x, gnome, and KDE are designed > in 2001 for 2001 hardware. If you go back and compare a 1998 distro, > say RH5.2 running fvwm you may see an increase in performance. I would HIGHLY recommend that people DO NOT use old distributions. Security holes up the yin-yang. If you need to use older computers, I would go for Debian or Slackware. > One thing I noticed about X 4.x is that it runs better than 3.x on new > hardware but slower on old hardware. Many drivers were not ported forward to 4.x. My display card at work, for example, is an old 1MB card that is currently restricted to using the generic and largely unaccelerated `vesa' driver (and as of Debian testing's X 4.1.0, it broke.. I may have to file a bug report on that). -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Is it possible to be / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ totally partial? \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010914/41756fb0/attachment.pgp