Re: is it really slower?

From: tom (temeehan_at_nospamverizon.net)
Date: 02/11/05


Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:11:22 GMT

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:16:40 -0500, bird wrote:

>
> The problem I have now is I feel FC3 is slower than Win2K. For example,
> Win2K+IE6 is much faster than FC3+FireFox. When I visit this news group,
> Thunderbird is also much slower than Outlook Express. I understand
> the Microsoft combination should be faster than others because of its
> tight integration, but I believe there must exist some other reasons.
> Can you guys point out some? I think the algorithms involved maybe the
> most important.

As root, add the following to modprobe.conf and see if that helps your
browsing experience.

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

>
> One other question is: do you all up2date your machine once a week, or
> once a longer period? I often see the Alert icon informs to update, but
> I am always reluctant to do that. Am I doing right?

You should be updating the system. I use a nightly cron job employing
yum for updates. You can use Up2date as the updates appear; no harm
there. See www.fedoranews.org for additional details and help.

tom



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