Re: is it really slower?
From: ray (ray_at_zianet.com)
Date: 02/11/05
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:21:31 -0700
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:16:40 -0500, bird wrote:
> Everything works perfectly since I install Fedora Core 3 and make some
> updates. By saying this I mean it not only identifies hardware
> components, but also networks with other machines and OSs very well. I
> remember my media card reader and one of my pen drive didn't work well
> when I was with FC2. So, I think FC is making progress.
>
> 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,
How is it slower? Is it URL resolution or actual rendering? There seem to
be certain name resolution issues cropping up now - certain DNS servers
seem to time out a couple of times before returning data to Linux, but not
for MS. If name resolution is slow try adding
options timeout:1
to your /etc/resolv.conf file.
> 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.
>
> 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?
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