Re: Suggestions

[Fábio Gomes de Souza <fbhome fabiogomes eti br>]

> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: gnome-list-admin gnome org [mailto:gnome-list-admin gnome org]Em
> nome de Olaf Grüttner
> Enviada em: Sábado, 25 de Novembro de 2000 17:08
> Para: Fábio Gomes de Souza
> Cc: gnome-list gnome org
> Assunto: Re: Suggestions
>
>
> > 	* Performance
> >
> > 	1. Using GNOME in a 166 MHz MMX Pentium is like using
> Windows 95 in a 66
> > MHz DX2 486. You should test GNOME in slow machines and try to boost the
> > performance.
> >
>
> Well said. Although I like gnome, it behaves slow. It shows, when
> you hit other software on your maschine. Most Gnome-Programs take
> quite a while, till they show up. Especially programs using
> components are very slow. (nautilus, evolution, galeon...) They
> are so slow, I sometimes find them unusable because of this.
> (amd 233mhz, 64mb ram) On the other hand, BeOS is very responsive
> and even plain gtk apps like the rather well written sylpheed
> email client are very responsive compared to evolution or nautilus...
>

In the beginning (~1998/1999), it was possible to use GNOME in my machine
(Pentium MMX 166 MHz with 96MB of RAM). Today it performs tediously slow and
I switched back to Windows until I can buy another computer.