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lazygamer:
Goddamn, this Linux sure is hard to get used to. It's such a shock, you keep thinking like wind0ze. IE:WTF?! C'mon wind0ze does this, why don't you? It's like learning how to walk again. Even if your new, lithe and agile self will be better then your current self, it's still hard re-learning.

I guess there is only one way to make it as easy as wind0ze, rtfm.  

Ok im experincing some boo-boos with Mandrake. Sure, it's 100% reliable. It has never crashed on me, even when it's resources are under heavy strain, it don't crash!

That is also the problem. Mandrake seems to THINK that im heavily taxing it(according to the various load meters). Thus when im doing something simple like opening a file and I have one or two other windows open then SHOOM! A huge spike in the cpu usage occurs, taking it close to the top. The ram is also indicating it's mostly used. Either the meters are in-accurate, or my Mandrake is not optimally configured.

I seriously feel Windows XP is, so far, outperforming Mandrake quite a bit, which is a shame. Surely you guys won't allow XP user to use this as ammunition?  ;)

It might make a major difference in speed and load times if I disabled a shitload of services. Most of these services seem USELESS to me. Me, someone who barfed the moment he saw the Linux command line.  

Problem is, I disabled a whole bunch last time, then my system reboots, but the GUI don't load. It leaves me to log my name in, in the console. After that, it gives me plenty of access to my console, but not to Gnome.  :(

So I had to re-install Linux, and then it was all happy. I however, am not sure what services f0ck up my Linux. So I have prepared a list.

Fam
Alsa
Anacron
Apmd
Atd
Crond
devfsd
gpm
harddrake
internet
ipvsadm
keytable
kheader
kudzu
linuxconf
medusa
netfs
network
nfslock
numlock
partmon
portmap
rabdin
rawdevices
sound
syslog
usb
webmin
xfs
xinetd

Some just load during boot, and some are constantly running.

Any other tips to optimize Mandrake? Im so n00bish, and that manual is so long... and I haven't even attempted Wine yet!  

cloudstrife:
yes, i have found that all the major linux distros, excluding slackware, are WAY TOO SLOW!!!  for one thing, KDE/GNOME are soooo fucking slow and sooooo fucking resource hoggin its not funny.  to show ya how slow mandrake/redhat really is in comparison to slack:

on my PII 333mhz:

boot time for redhat: 1:17
boot time for mandrake: 1:07
boot time for slackware: 0:18

ram used in redhat with kde running: 64 mb
ram used in mandrake with kde runnin: 62 mb
ram used in slackware with kde running: 25 mb

dont ask me why this is, i dunno, mandrake/redhat are too dumbed down for me.

choasforages:
*/barfs at boot times*/

FreeBSD hits in at around 17 seconds
and ChoasNETOS is like 10 seconds.

ok enough braging on boot times,

serriuosly give all the main linux distros a twirl. i was never really too big of a fan of mandrake anyway. and yes, slackware is harder to use, but faster. just don't give up, thats all i have to say. now a way to make redhat waaaayyy faster is to goto the opensource.sgi.com site and find the xfs one, actally here is the link. ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.1/installer/installer/i386/
last time i used the xfs enhanced version of redhat, it was fast as hell. but i havn't given it a shot in  awhile. what the xfs does is increase through put, it is a file system that sgi devoleped for supercomputers. it is very very very fast. but you owuld need that and the 7.3 install set. so that might be out of the question. owell, atleast you tried, thats better then some


xfs and xfs are too different things, one is the X font server, and the other is a file system, go figure

[ August 12, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]

choasforages:
and you reinstalled to get the gui back??, when i was a linux n00b i did that. go find a unix book, and read it. you will enlightend. besides have you tried quake3 yet. and for that fact, nautilus 1.4 is slow as shit anyway. gnome2 is way faster, but that would be a latter thing for you to do

choasforages:
besides, windows is something youll never forget. ive been useing linux for a year now, and i still remember all my EvIL windows magic.


and i have learned to work linux and FreeBSD, and im currently playing with NetBSD. so it is worth learning.

[ August 12, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]

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