On Friday 20 February 2009 16:18:12 Richard Shaw wrote: > 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 That sounds like a cool idea! -- Armin Moradi -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
