Alternatives to ubuntu?

Charles Yao ccyao at greenleecp.com
Wed Jan 4 02:28:13 UTC 2006


On 1/4/06, Filip Svendsen <filipncs at gmail.com> 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?
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> Filip Svendsen
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Suse, Fedora, Mepis, Mandriva. But maybe you shoud just change gnome. We use
Ubuntu on Sepmrons with 256mb of ram and firefox seems to work fine.

Charles

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