Which would run faster on my loish spec system, Kunbuntu or Unbuntu?

[FatRakoon]

i wasn't trying to talk down to you if that's how it looked - pretty obvious you know you're way around an open sourced box

KDE has never really done it for me but quite a few like v4+ so i should throw Kubuntu into a VM, with 8gb's i've certainly got the room to spare lol.

looking on distrowatch for a couple of new distros to try out under VM, it's pretty funny when RedHat is no.34 in terms of page hits

sidux,vector,damn small lol anyone tried these???

Didnt look that way, I dont mind either way. We all have our views on what Linux is and what it should be and what it could be... Thats the beauty of it... is it not?

KDE4 - Well, its got potential, Im still in the air about it myself - Im on 3.5 and 4 on the Kubuntu box, but fully on 4 on the Sabayon box, and funnily enough I am not liking the LapTop / Kuuntu version, but I also have a sneaky that this is down to simply the way Im moving over... Its still got 3.5 trails in there...

Testing in a VM? - usual notes to take with you... Half the Visual treats dont go very well in a VM, so the Compiz-Fuzion stuff might not work at all... I have a sneaky this is the same issues Im having with the Laptop beause visually they are the same.

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And there you have it.

After that golden nugget of solid advise, Im so busy talkign about Sabayon v Ubuntu vs others, tht we completely forgot to mention vnnnnnnnfndnmfn va b yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbtbvvczc,vz```` Linux!!!

We now know the true path to enlightenment


AH! - Enlightenment... Another darling light GUI you dont see anymore!

 

[marscay]

Testing in a VM? - usual notes to take with you... Half the Visual treats dont go very well in a VM, so the Compiz-Fuzion stuff might not work at all... I have a sneaky this is the same issues Im having with the Laptop beause visually they are the same.

yah that's the only caveat to the VM's although i'm sure i read somewhere about them working on acceleration.....that would be gravy

i think brummie is onto something, why didn't we think of that?

 

[pingwing]

lol because we all know whats we likes from linux and defend it to the high hill (even when say gentoo isnt the best for putting on a laptop with an intergrated ati gfx card as problems are harder to work about doing everything your self), but tis defintally good to talk of the different merrits to get ideas for what to try out...

On a random plus enlightenment is fun! if you lay your hends on a few good guides for getting it looking that good...

 

[FatRakoon]

i'm sure i read somewhere about them working on acceleration

Cool. Something that needs addressing, if not for the performance, but certainly to allow us to better see things for what they are! - Although running 3DMark06 under a VM thats being run on Windows, thats running under a VM on a Linux box does sound sweet...

that would be gravy

gravy?

GRAVY?

My god man! sort yourself out!!!!

enlightenment is fun!

Yeah, I often resorted to it when Mandrake was the be-all and end-all of my only Linux experience ( Mandrake was fine until 10 and then it lost it for me - Mandriva is gettign some respect back, but not enough for me to move over other than to wet my toes with a new release on a space system )

I think that for an alternative GUI however, perhaps Blackbox was my favourite maybe?... Close call with Enlightenment

 

[brummie]

Sorry guys my keyboard broke and i could do nothing to avert that crisis

have a shiny new one now though

Carry on

 

[brummie]

AH! - Enlightenment... Another darling light GUI you dont see anymore!

gOS?

 

[FatRakoon]

Sorry guys my keyboard broke and i could do nothing to avert that crisis

have a shiny new one now though

Carry on

Oh yeah?

Well you can go and fffffffffffffffff... ( Is there a Smiley for a really cheesy grin? )

gOS?

Not heard of that, however, not to be put off, I just downloaded OPENGEU and thats running Enlightenment so thats nice, I just run it Live and its fairly nippy-ish as a live CD, so I am just about to convert my LapTop to OpenGEU now!!!

OpenGEU is based on yet another ubuntu and this is 8.4 so nice and up to date.

My god, is there no end to the ubuntus?

I might try Mandruntu next, perhaps feduntu or maybe even Gentuntu

 

[FatRakoon]

Ok...

I just been playing for the last ... Hour or so, with OpenGEU

Honestly, the enlightenment GUI has moved on a little since I last toyed with it, I completely ruined the little task menu thingies... The shelves as the yare called and I have put them back again now, the right hand bar I made to look as much like Vistas as I could, the bottom bar I kept minimalistic, the original sunshine theme was absolutely sexy and there is also a midnight one in there too, as well as a nice clean one ( That I kept to after a short while due to the sunny one being too bright and the midnight one being too dark, this as just right )

So, this OpenGEU is for all intents and purposes UBUNTU with the Enlightenment GUI.

Going back to the original post of which is quicker for the laptop, this then makes 4 serious contenders for which one is the quickest...

I will have to also now add something here...

My Wireless is a Linksys PCMCIA card. Both Xubuntu and OpenGEU failed miserably to get the card started... I might have missed somehting but I doubt it as I had previously been running Xubuntu 7.10 just fine on it but 8.4 was a no-no.

This OpenGEU too was quicker than the live install yes, but it is still far, far too slow compared to the Kubuntu??? - How is that possible I simply do not know, but I was sure that Kubuntu was much more snappy than this Emlightenment and as of 10 minutes ago, I am back on Kubuntu 8.4.

Wireless I just clicked on the Icon in the taskbar and it showed my Router and I enabled it and there I was bringing up google with no user info from me needed.

So, OpenGEO is great, and I like it, but not with this Laptop or at least not with this PCMCIA card... Same issues that I had with Xubuntu so Im not worried over nothing just yet.

Xubuntu or Kubuntu or ubuntu... Or XFCE, KDE, or Gnome is really what is boils down to!

KDE and gnome are roughly about on par with each other... Id say that KDE is the quicker, but on one hand I would be wrong and on the other Im right... From the small tests I have done myself I have found KD Eto be quicker with version 1.1 1.3 1.5 of this or that and Gnome the quicker with versions 1.0 1.2 1.4 so, by *** time you move from gnome to KDE because KDE is quicker, the chances are that Gnome will be the quicker of the 2 meaning that you either wasted your time, or will have to go back to gain that few % speed.

Ok, so, if you truly want a speed boost, then perhaps you need to consider a much smaller GUI than Gnome or KDE and perhaps with with XFCE, FVWM or such?

XFCE is basic yes, but it allows Desktop Icons and this is really all you need on the GUIis it not?

Luckily with the ubuntus, you can pretty much fully change from gnome to xfce to kde to hell and to high waters withotu reinstalling.. Might be simply worth doing that... Choose your GUI on the login screen?

Try them for yourself.

I myself like half the KDE Junk and so I am back on it, but also I have found that KDE is fairly fast enough for me to not worry that its a bit bloated.