Performance Improvements

[Leon Goldstein]

James McDonald wrote:

>>Its hard to comment as you haevn't really said what isn't snappy enough.
>>Its quite possible that you've got it as good as it gets right now based
>>on your hardware.  Which distro are you running?
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>I'm using Ubuntu Edgy. Programs such as GQView take a long time to redraw
>jpegs. OpenOffice is traditionally slow to load but I wouldn't mind if it
>was a bit more peppy. Web browsing using Firefox isn't as snappy as it
>once was.
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>I think perhaps I need a new computer but I got married and now a bathroom
>is more important than my Linux box... sigh.
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CPU? RAM?  I've got an old Compaq Presario I upgraded to K6-III+ (500 
mHz) and installed a Promise ATA100 IDE controller.  It runs KDE very 
nicely, considering its RAM is limited to 384 MB.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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