Alternatives to ubuntu?
J.Markoll
j.markoll at free.fr
Tue Jan 3 18:43:24 UTC 2006
Tim Littlemore a écrit :
> Filip Svendsen wrote:
>
>>Thanks for the windowmanager recommendations, but what about firefox?
>>Did the extra memory help gnome? I really like gnome, and would prefer
>>not having to switch.
>>
>>
> Yes. I was experiencing exactly the same problems you mentioned - slowness in
> response when clicking on menu items, etc. This was happening in most
> applications, not just Firefox. Once I took my RAM up to 512MB, everything was
> much smoother.
> Apparently, Gnome and Firefox are both notorious for soaking up a lot of memory,
> if you give them access to more RAM, it can only help.
>
> Tim
You can configure something in gdm, I don't remember what, though, or
you can renice some apps...
and/or install Xfce4.2 which is very handsome and lighter.
Joyce Markoll.
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