Alternatives to ubuntu?

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Anders Karlsson Wrote: 
> On 1/7/06, Alessandro <a24 (AT) umbc (DOT) edu> wrote:

> > I've run Gentoo as my main Linux distro for years now and I love it. 
> It

> > is incredibly fast ( you should look into how to optimize GCC for
> your

> > particular architecture ), and plus you're not stuck with just
> having

> > Gnome or KDE, you get no X whatsoever.  You should look into
> Fluxbox,

> > Enlightenment or XFCE-4 if your box is slow.

> >

> > Anyways, try out doing a Level 1 Gentoo install and you won't regret
> it.

> 

> Been there, done that, got fed up waiting for endless compile to

> complete just to get a 0.3% speedup that for most people means they

> can read their e-mail at exactly the same speed as before.

> 

> By all means (and I have done so in the past) go the gentoo way if you

> have time to burn and no work (i.e. better things) to get on with. The

> ones here that does have work to get on with appreciates the

> pre-compiled stuff. Besides, why go to gentoo if you want to compile

> all from source, Ubuntu will let you do that as well, for all 17,000+

> packages...

> 

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Have you tried tuning firefox?  

Have you got some network problem especially ipv6 stuff leaves network
dependant apps waiting ..

personally i find firefox ion Ubuntu perfectly acceptable.  I tried
early firefox and dumped it sticking to Opera for a long time because
of performance probs but since firefox 1.0 I have found it fast enough
...



this rather makes me think something is amis with your install
somewhere ...


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