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What Puts the Bloat in Mandrake 8.1




Hi all.

I installed Mandrake 8.1 on my friend's computer which is a Pentium 200
MHz with 256 MB of RAM. I used Kernel 2.4.x, XFree86 4.1.0 and the rest of
the default MDK configuration. We used Vanilla IceWM as the desktop.

>From some reason, it ran very sluggishly. After we downgraded to RedHat
6.1, it ran perfectly fine, even with GNOME or KDE.

So the question is: what caused the fact that the newer configuration ran
more slowly than the older one, despite the fact that it used a much more
lightweight desktop environment. Was it the new XFree86? The newer Kernel
(2.4.x vs. 2.2.x)? Or what?

Since the machine is not connected to the Internet, and my friend only
uses it for a university course, which does not require all the software
to be the most up-to-date, it is not critical that he will run the older
distro. But, still I'd hate to think that Linux is becoming as bloated as
Windows does.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish



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Shlomi Fish        shlomif@t2.technion.ac.il
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If:
1. A is A
2. A is not not-A
does it imply that
1. B is B
2. B is not not-B


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