bvc Posted September 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 (edited) no, no, no the prob is for people like me....1 ps/2 mouse (in my case a usb mouse with a ps/2 convert/adapter) or 1 usb mouse. It sets up 2 entries for the same mouse, which causes 2 clicks for every 1 click. Weird, eh? Didn't know x would do such a thing :lol: love the sig! /everyone!.. hipno, hipno...."come to ubuntu".....hipno, hipno Edited September 19, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 (edited) I'm really liking it, except the fonts ....my favorite font lucida grande looks like crap!...but it always has in deb. I d/k what rh, and mdk do that makes so many fonts look good that look bad in other distros. Never looked into it. This was installed over my lfs. I never had time for it or messed with it anyway and was always in mandrake. This minimal stuff is kinda refreshing. Guess I'll have to stop skinning pixmap, and no, I'm not learning engine theming. ubuntu3 Edited September 19, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 hmm... has anyone of you problems with mounting other hd's? my ubuntu always says that every partition that i am trying to mount (reiserfs and vfat) is not supported by the kernel... strange... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 (edited) warning: this will keep it from ever chking the filesys but you could try and change in fstab for example /dev/hdb7 / ext3 defaults 0 1 to /dev/hdb7 / ext3 defaults 0 0 no, I didn't have that prob. It just wanted to fix my win partition everyboot. Edited September 19, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 (edited) Still no major problems here with Ubuntu. But it does not feel as snappy, as responsive, as smooth as Mandrake. Maybe because I am not used to Gnome. Wanted to find out what's this all about when people telling, kde is eating so much ressources, gnome does not. So I booted three OS, Mandrake 10.0 with the default KDE 3.2.1, SLAX LiveCD (!) with KDE 3.3.0 and Ubuntu with Gnome 2.8. I only opened a terminal and ran 'free'. Here are the results: MDK 10.0, kde 3.2.1, konsole - nothing else running: [chris@localhost chris]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 256088 120276 135812 0 5960 68152 -/+ buffers/cache: 46164 209924 <------ Swap: 2208892 0 2208892 SLAX 1.4.1, running as LiveCD, kde 3.3.0, konsole - nothing else running: root@slax:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 255620 251668 3952 0 33020 158128 -/+ buffers/cache: 60520 195100 <------ Swap: 2208892 5252 2203640 ubuntu, gnome 2.8.0, gnome-console - nothing else running: chris@ubuntu ~ $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 256944 161344 95600 0 8164 73200 -/+ buffers/cache: 79980 176964 <------ Swap: 2208892 0 2208892 Any explanations? Comments? Don't comment the big swap, lol, that's because /me building LiveCD's :lol: Edited September 19, 2004 by anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 yeah, I have a coment... ....no one listens to me :lol: I said back when gnome2.4 came out that this was no longer true and that gnome eats as much or more resources than kde. People either don't read or comprehend. Even now people suggest gnome forthose that complain about kde's resource usage BUT, something isn't right there. Sure nothing else was running? That's a much bigger diff than I've ever seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 no, no, nothe prob is for people like me....1 ps/2 mouse (in my case a usb mouse with a ps/2 convert/adapter) or 1 usb mouse. It sets up 2 entries for the same mouse, which causes 2 clicks for every 1 click. Weird, eh? Didn't know x would do such a thing :lol: love the sig! /everyone!.. hipno, hipno...."come to ubuntu".....hipno, hipno <{POST_SNAPBACK}> anna, As far as the memory it could simply be a diff in the kernel. 2.6 kernel does allocate memory better so while it can show that more memory is being taken up, it is swapping it out better. SLAX uses a 2.4 kernel. Mdk uses a heavily patched 2.6 kernel, so this really could be a diff in kernels. I'm not suggesting that Gnome isn't as big or maybe bigger HOG than KDE, but it could be simply the kernel. Just my $.02 Say it with me now, ubuntu ubuntu ubuntu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 (edited) Heck, here is mine $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1011 1000 11 0 36 762 -/+ buffers/cache: 201 809 Swap: 3984 0 3984 justin@morpheus ~/Games/ArmyOps $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1035680 1024280 11400 0 37420 780484 -/+ buffers/cache: 206376 829304 Swap: 4080416 208 4080208 A term and firefox open, thats it. The question you have to ask your self, what is more responsive, mdk or ubuntu, slax doesn't really count since it is running from cd. Edited September 20, 2004 by cybrjackle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 thx bvc and cybr :-) Funny is I can't really say ubuntu is slower for me, nothing to do with speed. Must be something else. And I LIKE the idea behind ubuntu VERY much. And how the dev are translating the idea into action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 I can't help myself....I have to say it... UBUNTU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 i don't have any speed probs. its damn fast here. buah... all is running well.... except two things now... 1. still unable to mount partitions from vfat or reiserfs type even after editing fstab. still reporting kernel-inability to mount the partitions. still working on it, before reporting it as a bug. 2. the gtk-engines do not work the way they should (although all are installed), leaving many themes without sliders or buttons. seems to be some grave bug. it is already reported. but apart from that... i do love ubuntu. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Even w/ fc3-test2 released and d/l not sure I want to put it on a box and get in the way of my ubuntu :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowe Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Still no major problems here with Ubuntu. But it does not feel as snappy, as responsive, as smooth as Mandrake. Maybe because I am not used to Gnome. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What the hell are you talking about, Ubuntu is like 10x faster than mandrake. In my opinion mandrake is the one that's slow. I have only tryed 3 distro's Mandrake, SuSE and Ubuntu and Ubuntu pwns them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 i don't have any speed probs. its damn fast here.buah... all is running well.... except two things now... 1. still unable to mount partitions from vfat or reiserfs type even after editing fstab. still reporting kernel-inability to mount the partitions. still working on it, before reporting it as a bug. 2. the gtk-engines do not work the way they should (although all are installed), leaving many themes without sliders or buttons. seems to be some grave bug. it is already reported. but apart from that... i do love ubuntu. :) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> have you tried as root? I know the first user...bla bla bla....but try as root, or create another user. Next step would either be to wait for an update, get newer/older engines from another repos, or get the latest and compile them. Engines are very easy to compile. Even w/ fc3-test2 released and d/l not sure I want to put it on a box and get in the way of my ubuntu :) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> no NO! don't do that! :deal: /ubuntu, ubuntu, ubuntu! Still no major problems here with Ubuntu. But it does not feel as snappy, as responsive, as smooth as Mandrake. Maybe because I am not used to Gnome. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What the hell are you talking about, Ubuntu is like 10x faster than mandrake. In my opinion mandrake is the one that's slow. I have only tryed 3 distro's Mandrake, SuSE and Ubuntu and Ubuntu pwns them all. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It happens. Ask cybr. A distro that's fast on one machine may be a dog on another. That's why no one can say any distro is the fastest. It depends on too many variables. ubuntu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Yep, thats right Ubuntu is still the bomb B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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