Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

azz ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed Feb 16 21:13:51 UTC 2005


"I think the machine (1.5GHz and 512MB of RAM) is plenty fast enough,
as
Win XP and Office and Outlook and internet explorer etc, load and
execute at the speed of light. The problem is the corresponding
programs
in Linux, are 20 times slower"

It is wierd that some people have exactly the opposite situation.  I
find a Dell 2.4Gz Celeron running WinXP is slower to get IE up and
running than Ubuntu starting Firefox.  It is about twice as fast than
windows, here.

The same goes for some really slow hardware of mine.  On another
system, (735MHz) they are about the same.

"> As for gedit, I've noticed that gxedit is surprisingly quicker.
> apt-get install gxedit.

Thanks ! Indeed, it's delightfully faster to load ! )
Too bad it doesn't uses Gtk2, I hope it will be updated soon "


The problem is GTK2 and font antialiasing.  If it were  built with
gtk2, it would run slower.  Last year with Debian, I was able to easily
disable gdk antialiasing and had a great performance gain in rendering
fonts and drawing windows in Gnome2.2.  It is currently harder to do
this and get readable fonts.  I couldn't tell you why I cannot disable
gdk anymore.


-- 
azz




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