On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:15:58PM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:02:40 +0000 > Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:50:32PM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote: > > The answer is the same as always. Provide evidence that this would > > significantly help performance. Nobody has yet done so. > > Let me just say as a desktop user of Gentoo. I can use gentoo's X server > and the opensouce nv driver here with kde and have a usable desktop. I > couldn't in debian, it was just too slow. Yes, it's anticdotal. Yes, this is the sort of anecdotal 'evidence' that is of no use whatsoever. Most of the time it turns out to be a matter of local system configuration. IDE DMA is one of the bigger culprits here. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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