-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 This is probably a bit late, but how much swap space do you have? Just like Windows, any graphical environment takes a lot of memory, both physical and virtual. You might want to install the swapspace package and/or increase the size of your swap partition. Yes, Vinux did seem a lot slower to me when I tried it here, but I agree that a system with X on it boots slower. However, XP boots slower than plain Debian without X, so I'm not sure if that's a valid comparison. Here, my Firefox on XP starts in less than 30 seconds. It always takes longer the first time I open it in a session. If you can upgrade to 64-bit Linux, that would help. If nothing else, you would get better memory management. I have an XP partition, a plain Debian partition without X and a 10 GB Debian unstable with X installed. The Debian unstable boots faster than XP and about the same as the partition without X. On 5/9/2013 11:06 AM, Rob Hudson wrote: > My problem with gnome/orca is that it is extreeeemely slow. If there > was a way to strip out most of the unnessential stuff in gnome, I'd > probably use it more often. I'm talking about almost thirty seconds to > launch firefox, as an example. Under XP on the same system, it only > takes maybe five to ten seconds. Granted, I haven't used gnome outside > of vinux and i haven't really played around much with default gnome as > installed from source or package management, so maybe it's just me. Or > maybe it's orca that's slow, I just don't know. > > Working in the terminal on the other hand is very snappy. I get no lag, > and everything just responds nice and fast. I get about a fifteen > second boot time, whereas with xorg installed it takes about forty five > seconds. There's three gigs of memory on the box in question and I > think a 2.0 ghz processor. So, unless i can find a way to make gnome > faster i won't be using it. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRjOqeAAoJEPrAuJWnLe0yqAEP/0ZpPQYZU0zxpnyPSAR5PNz+ rguo4JYAW7ESxXmBHkTP4p6SxBKlDPLvx/8QqI6o745y9UfyQjzU7OHPdaTO0iCm WC3hZtO7u6ViMcD4lyMRpi7ct5h7itTGhrWy7ra3gT0BkGyK8JBwUQd60LNqrJY2 s6fTjKwkr0XYXAMe0LqFKM2U3yK5FoUKAmz0CjQkhd+RrUPCcMgxZR2OgU1N5dni qkUd2sXlFFILUyLbgmLAEnIZLsZPq3NgmwFxmKvMuvM5QkW73PeMnitcsCQxAW03 15nORIljPnN0upY8vJpYBV7Qtudr1pSuIARMH9upa5esevpNQ1/LHZ0g3ZZvS5dW JQ3z/9/hjlorrOHmexXZketzLXk6Pt4riVXJyi3vx2LRRlXpPCO9GDpl5gmBro0b fpLRJjn3PCDfn921XJjZsCSKG2G1HvrP0Rtoz0fuWn92mSGFKozJ44W+pjquz6hI JOJzOpMHsHs7hKDQp4l8c4K7ZT31V/hZtswtaw4Y9HcC363Jq/92VG5/AD78mA3Z pmpccw0K3cmtDYyWn/KPgd/rJIlPT0NtUAOpHyMmOPnrt5IHqnv/RzcKnN8kSMOA IRtLXl9m+WJxE+HVjfyLTz/eX2z2HwARELZRrWo70XTSS8tNNn0VCzWi12uDblDT hQLyiP2DNKJLmER04tgL =lcyg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
