[ale] Debian's speed

[Jerald Sheets]

HP Pavillion zd7020US.  80G HDD, DVD+R/CD-RW, 512M ram.  Broadcom 54G
wireless running through LinuxAnt's Driverloader.

Sweet machine.

I have actually run 4 or 5 different Linuxes on this machine, but Debian
refuses to run.  >shrug<

-Jerald


On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 14:45 -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> I'm running Debian on an IBM with the centrino, works great.  I'm
> using it to send this email even.
> 
> 
> Thus spake Preston Boyington (PBoyington at polyengineering.com):
> 
> >  wrote:
> > > Debian craps its pants every time I try and put it on my laptop, so I
> > > gave up ad went Fedora.  I just upped to FC3 Final yesterday,
> > > and WOW!!!
> > > is it faster or what?
> > > 
> > > I can't believe how much faster it is than FC2.  Any guesses
> > > as to why?
> > > 
> > > --Jerald
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 11:58 -0500, Brandon Colbert wrote:
> > >> Wow!! Debian is faster than Mandrake/Redhat/Fedora. It is great for
> > >> low memory machines. I'm switching.
> > >> 
> > >> Thanks dudes! I will order the book today.
> > 
> > what laptop and which install process are you using?  I recently had problems with an old Gateway 1150 (?) while installing Sarge and wound up using Lilo instead of Grub as my boot manager.  I haven't had time (nor desire really) to figure out why lilo worked when grub didn't, but my friend is very happy with his Debian laptop (which is what matters).
> > 
> > after getting more involved with debian i honestly don't think i will jump to another distro for my personal needs.
> > 
> > -
> > Preston
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