OS Performance (was OT: New low for Microsoft!)

[Kevin F. Berrien]

I will second this.  I have two Pent II boxes, some 192 megs ram, that I 
use for test boxen, home network stuff.  I found RH9 more sluggish in 
gnome than FC1 as well.  FC1 seems a bit more jumpier than RH9 was.

I do agree however, that Gnome/KDE have gotten bloated, just as XP did.  
Compare Win2k desktop to XP sometime, you'll notice a large speed 
difference, not to mention XP gui is very buggy still.

Unfortunately, our GUI's are becoming less GUI's and more applications 
as time goes bye.

>along with the slow menus that you mentioned before but it seems to have
>dramatically improved when I went from RH 9 to Fedora.  I'm running on an
>old system (P-III 500 512 MB RAM, an old Riva TNT2) and any "GUI lag" that I
>used to see is gone.  It used to be one of my biggest pet peeves with
>working in X before FC1.
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