Convince me that Yellowdog is the Linux for me!

[aaron]

Correction:
>>YDLinux 2.1 does feel more responsive on my Mac at home than OS X does.
should be:
>>YDLinux 2.1 does NOT feel more responsive on my Mac at home than OS X does.

> Thats wierd - mine does everything instantaneously and I mean instantly -
> how much ram do you have ?

 768 MB

>Hmm...I have just installed YDL 2.2 on the machine mentioned below, and
>it provides a MUCH faster gui than OS X ever did.  I am currently using
>KDE 2.2.2, but plan to investigate either Gnome or KDE 3.0 in the near
>future to decide which wm I like best...

I use YD 2.1 with KDE.  The "finder" app (Konqueror) IS slower than the OS X 
Finder.  We have to compare apples to apples.  Of course using the CLI to 
traverse the file system (which I do because Konqueror is so slow) in Linux 
is faster than the OS X Finder, but that's not much of a comparison.  I have 
found that the "Finder" in Gnome is very fast, though, probably faster than 
OS X's.

>It's strange that your 1.7 Gig pentium is more sluggish with KDE than
>your OS X box....I believe that most people would describe very opposite
>experiences.

I use both systems every day, as I said above similar apps seem faster on OS 
X (File Manager to File Manager, for example).  Star Office takes longer to 
start than MSOffice v. X, and Mozilla is a lot more sluggish on my Linux 
machine than in OS X.

Maybe we are talking about a different kind of responsiveness, e.g. I do 
think that menus are brisker in Linux than in OS X, but I don't usually 
notice it much because the difference in time doesn't have me waiting.

-Aaron


On Tuesday 09 April 2002 12:56 pm, Robert Brandtjen wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 April 2002 10:55 am, aaron wrote:
> > I use there to be considerably more sluggish that OS X is on my Mac (G4
> > DP 500 Mhz).  I don't think running a comtemporary  Linux of any sort is
> > going to give you a more responsive GUI on a G3 333 than OS X does (YD
> > Linux 2.1 does feel more responsive on my Mac at home than OS X does).
>
> Thats wierd - mine does everything instantaneously and I mean instantly -
> how much ram do you have ?