On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Alex de Jong <alexander.dejong@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> That's why I switched to FluxBox. Damn ugly, but fast. >> I don't need the fancy blinking windows, sliding menu's or whatever, >> But I see your problem: things like BlackBox tend to get too ugly/unhandy >> fast... > > At work I need access to Exchange 2007 server and untill new Gnome > comes out with MAPI support I have to run Outlook under windows under > Virtualbox. > > The strange thing is that Firefox was running much faster under > virtual machine than one running natively under Linux! I couldn't use > native Firefox because somehow it would crawl... until I enabled these > new options I saw recommended (vm.swappiness=1 and > vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50). Now native running Firefox is as fast as > one under virtual machine and I can finally use Firefox on Linux > desktop... > > Any comments? > > -- > http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ > linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless > registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. > ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > How about a new app: "system-config-performance"? Which would allow you to pick from several preconfigured profiles depending on your needs or the option to customize those settings. Just an idea. Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
