Re: Why is Linux so slow?

From: GreyCloud (mist_at_cumulus.com)
Date: 01/17/04


Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 04:33:42 GMT


"Gilbert" <gilbert_quackenbusch@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:6aa1b3da.0401161745.1899331d@posting.google.com...
> I've just installed SUSE 9.0 Linux on my P4 based system
with 1
> gigabyte of memory and it seems to really run slow.
> I took a default install and I am using kde.
> I also notice that sound skips terribly when playing any
video using
> kaffine which appears to be a wrapper for mplayer.
> Also why does it take so long to display a directory of a
couple of
> thousand files?
> With WinXP this takes a second or two but with Linux it can
take up to
> 15 seconds or more.
> One last thing is that I am finding networking to be very
slow with
> Linux.

Are you kidding?? I find XP so much slower than Linux or any
other o/s at networking.

> Transferring files from Windows machines to Linux and back
seems to
> take forever.

Do you know what you are doing??

> I have an Asus P4P800 board with 1 gig of memory of it
matters.

Linux will go very fast on that board.



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