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Re: [PLUG] questions on an office-wide conversion
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On Monday 17 December 2001 10:00 am, you wrote about Re: [PLUG] questions on
an office-wide conversion:
> Could be the disk I/O is slowing things up. If you're on an IDE
> disk drive consider reading on the "hdparm" command..(but warning,
> playing on hdparm could potentially ruin your disk).
>
> Many times on older RedHat versions I've had to adjust the hdparm
> setting such as enabling write-cache (probably not a good idea
> but I like it enabled), 32-bit support, and so on.
RH also goes out of there way to make KDE packages much worse than they
really are. I am running SUSE 7.3 and KDE is much faster. I would explore
not using RHs official packages. RH may make a good server, but they are
very bad at doing desktops.
- -ian reinhart geiser
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