Fedora speed and a ranking of distro speeds

Thijs Hulshof fedoranl at gmail.com
Wed Jul 14 16:52:29 UTC 2004


I think the BlueCurve-theme slows down Fedora a lot... Try a more
simple theme, and Fedora will run a lot faster ! By my computer it
helps.

Maybe an idea for the Fedora-developers: Tweak the BlueCurve theme.

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:30:57 +0200, Peter Boy
<pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> Am Di, den 13.07.2004 schrieb Thiers Botelho um 23:44:
> > Now, as a newbie I'd like to hear any comments on how easy would be for an
> > average user to tune FC2 up in order to achieve better performance than
> > that of the out-of-box defaults (on the desktop side I mean).
> 
> Maybe, a first question should be: what is the downside of those tuning?
> 
> One example: ext3 is slower as reiserfs in some circumstances. But you
> have a better chance to loose all your data being on reiserfs in certain
> circumstances as well. You may gain some performance from reiserfs for a
> period of time, but may have a severe "loss of performance" while
> looking for your latest backup tapes one day.
> 
> Red Hat has been well known for being quite conservative back in the
> days of RHL, deciding for stability and reliability over performance.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
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