Gusty is slow!

[Kristian Rink]

Mario Vukelic schrieb:
> Understandable, though one would wonder why you use Ubuntu in the first
> place ... 

Because it eases the "pain" of getting the system up and running also if
you generally know what to do but are  just too lazy to get it done
right manually. ;)

Honestly, I've been with Debian more or less eight years, and I've come
to love Ubuntu on my workstations / notebooks simply because
installation is blazingly fast and most hardware works well out of the
box without too much tweaking. However that still doesn't make me need a
 desktop indexing / search application like tracker or the
network-manager given that usually I'm in one of two wired networks both
 using well-configured DHCP. It's a matter of use-cases and requirements
indeed, I guess. After all, Ubuntu still is easier to maintain then
Debian - "dpkg --purge $PACKAGES_NOT_WANTED" practically is just one
line of shell command. ;)


> Also, remember that the fastest computer is the one that does nothing,
> just like the most secure one is not connected to anything (and encased
> in concrete at the ocean floor) ;)

Indeed. :] However, in my very environment (server side Java application
development, having a local test system as well as an IDE like NetBeans
or Eclipse running, plus possibly a VMWare hosting Windows XP or 2003
server as testbed deployment environment given the customer wants this),
 I want to use my computation power for other things than purposes which
using "grep -R" or "vi /etc/network/interfaces" does serve quite as well. ;)


> Regarding Tracker: note that it actually slows down things only very
> rarely, A few minutes after booting and when you create new files that
> it needs to index. On my machine, it uses practically zero resources
> practically all the time.

Well, I haven't really looked at its behaviour more closely by now as,
as stated before, I don't want / need its functionality. However I don't
like the feeling of Ubuntu getting closer to Windows XP, a system which,
the first few moments after startup, is virtually unusable given you do
have a decent set of applications installed that consider themselves
interesting enough to auto-start. But again, dealing with these
"drawbacks" and removing some applications is not a big deal, and still
I think Ubuntu has too many advantages to offer to make this worthwile. #:)

Just my $0.02 of course. :)
Cheers,
Kristian


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