Convince me that Yellowdog is the Linux for me!

[Kimball Larsen]

Hmm.. time cat /etc/termcap takes 28.36 seconds for me inside a regular
shell... 


What can I do to improve X even more?  You mention that before you fixed
your X configuration, this command took a long time.  What did you fix?

Still, X under YDL 2.2 is much faster than OS X ever was on this
machine.

-Kimball


On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 15:12, Romain Kang wrote:
> > On a B&W G3/450 (576 MB RAM, 16 MB VRAM) I find Linux to be quite sluggish
> > in drawing windows and switching apps (especially horrible when opening apps
> > (which happens frequently since Mozilla & Knoquerer ain't exactly the height
> > of stability :(. OS X can spin the wheel (especially the !@$!@# Finder piece
> > of crap application) at times but at least window refresh happen instantly
> > when requested.
> 
> Silly question time.  If you do "time cat /etc/termcap" inside rxvt,
> how long does it take?  Before I fixed my X configuration, I recall
> that it took over 12 seconds on my iceBook 500.  IIRC, the YDL
> installer left the fbdev driver instead of using the native Mach*
> driver.  However, the machine is at home and I'm at work, so I can't
> check.
> 
> My experience is that you lose a good deal of function going from
> OS X to YDL 2.1.  However, the improved responsiveness, programmability,
> and the easier availability of free software more than made up the
> difference for me.  If it had been easy to find the system APIs for
> OS X, I might have stayed with it.
> 
> Romain
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