____/ flyer on Monday 18 June 2007 07:31 : \____
> In article <ro6hk4-j9i.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, thad05@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> this.com says...
>> The weather was wonderful today, far too nice to stay couped up
>> inside in front of the computer. Still, the work must get done,
>> so my compromise was to drag the laptop outside and work from
>> the deck[1].
>>
>> The laptop in this case is a Sony PCG-C1X Picturebook. It
>> has a 266 MHz CPU, 64MB of RAM, and a 4 GB harddrive. I'm
>> currently using it to edit an OpenOffice document, surf the
>> web, edit source code, and compile some rather large
>> applications, all at the same time on a standard Ubuntu
>> Feisty Fawn gnome desktop. Performance is almost as snappy
>> as sitting in front of my 2.8 GHz, 1GB RAM, P4 system.
>>
>> Of course that is because I'm actually running everything
>> on my P4 system and redirecting the entire gnome desktop
>> session to the laptop. I'm not even running the window
>> manager locally. It works rather well really. Remote
>> access on Linux rocks.
>>
>> Thad
>>
>> [1] The 'deck' is actually the flat roof of my commercial
>> building. Having a large parking lot instead of a yard,
>> we've added grass and a vegetable garden to the roof, as
>> well as some patio furniture.
>>
>
> That's wild.
>
> I suppose it is a mistake to assume people have heard of Linux and know
> how great it really is.
>
> They simply do not know what they are missing.
>
> But then the word is going out, but it could be faster.
One thing I can say is that Ubuntu handles the memory far better than SuSE (not
SLED/Opensuse) on the very same hardware. It could have something to do with
KDE, but the version was upgraded, not downgraded. Booting time is much better
as well (because fewer unneeded services are enabled perhaps). It's about
twice as fast. It could of course have something to do with the kernel and
other packages as well, so there are too many factors to consider it.
Bottom line: Ubuntu handles the resources available very nicely. I am very
pleased with this distro. apt-get is a joy too. No ImageMagick? No XMMS-KDE?
Just apt-get it (it even makes suggestion for missing packages by echoing in
the CLI... someone in a blog/Digg proposed this months ago, so maybe they put
it in Feisty as per his suggestion)... it takes seconds to complete on a
100MBit/sec connection. YaST is a dinosaur in comparison. Not sure how the
newer packager managers that Opensuse adopted ever turned out, but the shuffle
indicates that it's still a little messy. To be fair, this can't get worse
than Vista/XP where one needs to fetch pertinent packages, click lots of stuff
in /inconsistent/ installer, reboot, risk being unable to clean-sweep
properly... even Windows has some projects that mimic apt-get/yum.
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