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Realisitc requirements for ubuntu?
Lead Head:
My main computer was down for a few days, so I was forced to use my back up computer, which is 1GHz Duron, with 384 MB of ram and Ubuntu 8.04. I was really not impressed at all with the performance, perhaps it is just my install, but everything was dog slow. Firefox takes its sweet time starting up, opening a page like this would take at least 15 seconds just waiting for it to render everything.
The system as a whole is just pokey, almost to the point of being unusable. I used to have an older version of ubuntu, I think pre 6.0 on a 600MHz athlon with less ram, and it seemed faster then this turd. Even XP is faster on this thing then Ubuntu 8.04.
Is it a problem with my install? Are their some CPU optimizations I'm missing, or has Ubuntu just gotten "chunkier" with each new version?
davidnix71:
You exceed the recommended minimums for decent performance, except for some eye-candy they call "Desktop Effects" which are turned ON by default if you have the minimum graphics card. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DesktopEffects
Maybe killing the eye-candy will speed things up.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
Refalm:
It's weird that Compiz is turned on by default, on community videocard drivers. Which is fairly insane, because 3D acceleration isn't even close to what nVidia and ATI propriety drivers provide.
Lead Head:
The effects are not enabled, the chipset has no 3D support at all.
davidnix71:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/968521.html
This thread here suggests you may have a beta FF3 version. 8.04 came out between FF2 and 3, so there were some issues.
Which plugins are you using for FF?
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