Hi!
My system has the following characteristics :
* Athlon 1700 cpu
* 256 ddram
I recently installed Slackware (vectorlinux actually, but it's the same story) on my system. The one thing I immediately noticed (the most import thing too
) is that KDE is unbelievably fast on slackware. I almost fell off my chair :p Until recently I'd been running mandrake for a year or so, and this speed was absolutely beyoung my expectations.. I tried anything to get it this fast on mandrake! Things I tried :
* Cutting down on services load (removing un-needed services)
* Compiling a custom kernel optimized for my processor
* Using a custom startkde script
* Moving away my .kde directory (inspired by windows registry problems :p)
All these things had some result, but never a very noticable/impressive one.
I'm searching for reasons now, to explain this difference in speed.. I'm running the same configuration now, than I was on mandrake (nat/dhcpd, httpd, ftpd, sshd). What could be the reason for this dramatic change in speed? Things I noticed :
* Konqueror starts in less than a second, sometimes not even a half one
* Kde on itself start up in about 10 seconds or less (it used to be 20-30 on mdk)
Is it because slackware has less bloat?
Is it because there was something wrong with my mandrake installation the whole time? can someone else who ran the both, confirm this?
greetings,
xastor.