Re: linux on a laptop

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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:45:27 +0000

Morten Juhl Johansen wrote:

> Den Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:09:20 +0000. skrev Miguel:
>
>
>>Hi :
>>
>>I installed suse 9.2 on my laptop. My laptop is is AMD Athlon XP-M 2600+
>>with chipset VIA it is a fast laptop in winXP put in Suse it is quiet
>>slow. My nornal installation of WINXP is around 130 MRAM but in Suse it
>>occupies around 200MRAM running only KDE and the normal stuff by default
>>. No Apache, no postfix, no mysql server. No nothing
>>
>>What can I do to improve preformance I start openoffice in win and on
>>Linux takes 3 a 4 seconds more to open.
>>I thought that linux is lighter and faster than Windows.
>>I also heard that chipset VIA is not that great on LINUX is that true??
>
>
> Actually, OOo is kind of a heavy program - I use AbiWord for all lighter
> tasks. With regards to SuSE - as others have said: KDE is heavy. I have
> used Fluxbox to make it much faster - well, right now I run Gnome because
> Ubuntu Gnome 2.8 is just beautiful. But on my 600 MHz, 32 MB RAM laptop I
> run the Libranet distro with Fluxbox and OpenBox - and they are extremely
> fast.
> Of all the distributions I have tried, SuSE is the most sluggish one.
>
> ./MJJ

I desactived kpowersave as sugested by a friend and it really is fast now...

I'm haveing another problem on suse 9.2 I'm trying to install my
Wireless PCMCIA card SMC2835w card.

I tryied ALMOST EVERYTHING can't get it blinking the link light..

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