Alternatives to ubuntu?

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Filip Svendsen wrote:
> On 1/3/06, Tim Littlemore <tim at tjl2.com> wrote:
>   
>>  Filip Svendsen wrote:
>>  I realize this is probably one of the worst possible places to ask
>> this, but I'm looking for an alternative to Ubuntu. My problem is that
>> the interface feels so incredibly sluggish. I'm not talking about
>> startup times of apps, which really doesn't bother me at all; it's the
>> responsiveness of apps after they've started. In particular firefox is
>> incredibly slow, compared to under windows 2000.
>>
>> I really don't want to go back to windows again, so I'm interested in
>> if anybody knows how well gnome and firefox runs under for example
>> gentoo?
>> Are their other performance-minded distros out there?
>> --
>> Venlig hilsen
>> Filip Svendsen
>>
>>
>>  You'll more than likely find that this problem is due to the Gnome desktop,
>> rather than Ubuntu itself - that's what I found. You might like to try some
>> of the other desktops/window managers such as KDE, XFCE, etc.
>>
>>  Personally, I just stuck another 256MB RAM in my system, because I like
>> Gnome. That fixed the sluggish performance for me.
>>
>>
>>  Tim
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> 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.
>
> --
> Venlig hilsen
> Filip Svendsen
>
>   
Don't know much about Gnome because i use KDE myself. But as for firefox 
(and thunderbird maybe) it is a very very good idea
to download and use directly from mozilla.org. For some unknown reason 
Ubuntu compilations of these two have very slow performance.
You may also want to disable ipv6 features in both firefox and the linux 
kernel itself.. Ubuntu forums have articles on how to do that.
Also you may want to have a look at this 
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8308. It explains how to tweak your 
kernel to use the memory
more than the swap.

My processor is a P4 1.7 GHz and I had the same problems as you. After 
applying these tweaks i don't notice any difference between windows xp
and Kubuntu.

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