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worker201:
If you'd rather build all your apps and packages by hand using --with-target=whatever and with sse2 enabled, feel free. You can totally optimize your packages. Hell, you can optimize the whole damn kernel if you want. But it's just plain easier to use generic rpms.
I'm with Kintaro - Linux is not for whiners. Get tough or get out. You can't complain unless you are paying for development or leading development yourself. Linux can do anything and everything you ever dreamed of and more - but it's up to you to make it happen. If you want to sit back and have eye-candy spoonfed to you, then perhaps Linux isn't for you.
Pathos:
I just downloaded Damn Small Linux only four hours on the 56k (surfing as well), it sounds really cool, going to try it now.
Pathos:
I didn't show the gui when I tried to make it boot with specific vga setting.
It worked when I didn't choose any settings.
Now it doesn't no matter what I do...
Welcome to linux pathos.
I know its got something to do with the graphic mode which narrows it down.
Jenda:
Yeah, welcome to Linux, Pathos.
WMD:
--- Quote from: ksym ---You see, commercial platforms have a market-driven userland, which is mostly standardized, like in Windows. Software can be prelinked against system interfaces during compile-time, and so they work fast as hell.
In GNU/Linux you have no standards, no single userland to prelink software with.
--- End quote ---
Unfortunately for you, there is a program called Prelink that will link binaries against the system. Some new distributions (RHEL4 for example) will automatically run that in cron every once in a while.
I just did some timings myself:
Gedit: 6 seconds (longer than usual...wtf)
Emacs: 3 seconds
gVim: 1 second
AbiWord: 4 seconds (not bad considering it has to load some Gnome libs first. Inside Gnome, it would be maybe half this)
More importantly though, I find that Linux apps are very fast once they are loaded, even if they take slightly longer to load. Making it even more moot is the fact that MS Notepad is 95% the same app that it was in 1990, when it took about 3 seconds to load on a decent machine.
Also, I believe in loading programs and keeping them loaded, even on Windows. I never quit Gedit or anything else because I'd just have to reload it. I recommend doing this unless you have 256MB RAM or something.
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