abhiram

Sep 28 2005, 06:59 AM

I've looked around for prelink, but from what I've heard, it's more useful for older machines. With new systems, there really isn't much of a speed boost ... atleast, not on Slackware.

Anyways, KDE isn't too slow on my system. I just wanted to know if KDEINIT was a bug or not. Thanks for clearing that up .

I'm just waiting to get some free time on my hand so I can try out gentoo.

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abhiram

Sep 28 2005, 01:09 PM

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Are they present if you reboot your system ?

Yup, they're there always... whether I reboot or not.
I'm using Kernel 2.4 by the way. Maybe that has something to do with it. I don't recall having so many in Mandrake (not 'driva' when I used it a year ago ) which was running kernel 2.6. Come to think of it I never noticed it until recently when my screensaver stopped working.

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abhiram

Sep 28 2005, 07:40 PM

Well... i've been trying to install Kernel 2.6 for some time now, but keep running into some problems. Slackware gives you 2.4 by default and you have to upgrade to 2.6 on your own.

But as far as it goes, 2.4 is working fine, so I really don't have a problem with it. A little slow, but faster than windows .

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qwijibow

Sep 29 2005, 12:02 AM

from what i remember about slackware, in version 10.X the 2.6 series kernel was in a testing folder in the packages directory of the install disks.

i think its just a mattr of installing it, then editing grub or lilo.
I think Slackware 10.X is 2.6 ready.

I liked slackware, but didnt like the absence of an optimised kernel etc.
the slaware kernel is i486 otimised i think, or atleast it was in 10.0.
u used to re-compile it with Athlon optimisation.

Not that the performace boost is noticable or anything, i just like re-compiling things.. lol, such a nerd

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yordan

Nov 11 2005, 02:40 PM

So, I will continue sticking on RHEL3 and on Mandrake.

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abhiram

Nov 11 2005, 12:20 PM

Nah ... I tried, but nothing worked. Anyways, I finally formatted my 8 month old slackware and got gentoo on it now.

I think there are some issues with gnome and slackware anyway. That's why Paul Volkerding (the guy who maintains slackware) finally removed gnome from slack 10.2 after 3 years of thinking back and forth.

No problems of that sort with gentoo right now... thanks anyway .

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yordan

Nov 10 2005, 07:45 PM

Did you solve your problem, abhiram ?

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xboxrulz

Sep 30 2005, 08:09 PM

the Linux kernel 2.4.x is less stable, IMO. 2.6.x, is much much better, it has improved feature and failsafes.

xboxrulz

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