[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion

[Jack Bertram]

* NorthLondon John <northlondonjohn at yahoo.co.uk> [050209 14:33]:
> On 9 Feb 2005, at 08:30, Jack Bertram wrote:
> 
> >* Ubuntu is prettier (fonts, default Gnome installation, etc.)
> >* FC3 is noticeably faster as a desktop machine
> >* Ubuntu documentation is superb
> >* FC3 documentation is appalling
> 
> I'm astonished you think the Ubuntu docs are superb, and I'm on the 
> Ubuntu doc team. Indeed, the docs are one of the things that get most 
> criticised in reviews and feedback. Could you say which docs you used, 
> what was so good about them, etc?

I searched frequently on the Ubuntu wiki for information on things like:
* multiverse
* kernel compilation
* ati drivers

They're clear, easy to find, appear on the distribution web site so are
authoritative.

It was Ubuntu-specific stuff I was looking for, rather than Linuxy stuff
which I'm pretty good on in general.

The Ubuntu mailing list is also easier to search.

> And conversely, why the FC3 (which I've never used) docs are so poor? 
> (I must admit, from browsing the various FC3 websites I thought the 
> docs were pretty good.

I can't find any FC3 docs except those put up by members of the
community.  There appear to be no official, up-to-date Fedora Core 3
docs (although there are instructions on how to write them).  I couldn't
even find an installation guide, so when the Xserver crashed through
loading the radeon driver rather than vesa, it took a long time to
google and find out why.  I couldn't find out how to choose between yum
and apt, and why.

Perhaps there's some very obvious site I'm missing, but google has never
failed me before!

> >I'm still not used to the RedHat way of configuring the computer (have
> >grown used to the absolute simplicity and consistency of Debian-ish
> >systems) but for me the speed advantage of FC3 kills Ubuntu dead.
> >
> >Now I just need to work out why it feels so much faster!
> >
> >j
> 
> Please spare a thought for Ubuntu and tell us why it seems slow.

See the discussion on the list a couple of days ago.  I don't know what
makes it slow at all, but it's just not as responsive.  I have identical
applications running on top of the base setup, the same servers,
everything, and every activity (program launch, etc.) in Ubuntu takes
perceptibly longer than in FC3.  I'm guessing that it's some overall
configuration issue to do with compilation flags or something, but I
don't know what.

j
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