Alternatives to ubuntu?

[Michael R. Head]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 19:37 +0100, Filip Svendsen wrote:
> I have 4 needs:
> 1) Blender, a 3d-modeling package: I have no problems with this, I
> compile from cvs. It is at least as fast as under windows, probably
> faster.

Glad to hear it.

> 2) Firefox, obviously for web browsing, but also for tiddlywiki,
> (http://www.tiddlywiki.com/), a wiki written entirely in javascript.
> This is where most of my problems are, the performance of firefox in
> breezy is incredibly poor.

Someone suggested using the binary from mozilla.com, bypassing the
ubuntu binary. It seems a bit peppier to me. Another alternative is to
use konqueror.

> 3) Development, (related to blender), no problems at all. I use gvim,
> it works fine and is very fast.

Excellent.

> 4) An assortment of Gnome tools, nautilus and so on. These are slow,
> but I don't use them enough for it to really be a problem.

Agreed, they can be a bit pokey.

> 5) skype... (which I can get to work, barely. Are their any *working*
> voip programs for linux?)

What problems are you having with skype? I've been using it on Ubuntu
for some time.

gnomemeeting is the 'standard' voip app. I've used it in the past.

> 
> So the problem here is really firefox, it is so bad that I close it
> the second I'm done with it, because it keeps slowing down my computer
> even when I'm not using it.
> 
> Could there be a problem with the firefox in breezy? Should I try
> building my own?
> --
> Venlig hilsen
> Filip Svendsen
> 
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