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Re: Performance ?
by Mikhail Capone on Thursday 08/Jul/2004, @11:53
That's what I love about Linux. My old piece of crap computer is getting faster all the time.. From kernel 2.4 to 2.6, from KDE 3.1 to 3.2, etc.

In a few years I'll have to downgrade :D
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Re: Performance ?
by superstoned on Thursday 08/Jul/2004, @14:19
LOL this is exactly my idea about this ;-)
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Re: Performance ?
by Thomas on Friday 09/Jul/2004, @03:35
An old P350 with 128mgs of Ram feels snappier with KDE3.3 than with KDE 3.1.
Does the upgrade from 2.4 Kernel to 2.6 improves performance, too? If so, I'll certainly upgrade the kernel on this slackware box...
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  • Re: Performance ?
    by Jonas on Friday 09/Jul/2004, @05:08
    The new kernel is a tad bit snappier on interactive loads, but these improvements has been available for 2.4 as patches for some time. So you may already have them if you are running a distro kernel.
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    • Re: Performance ?
      by Paul Koshevoy on Friday 09/Jul/2004, @10:03
      SuSE 8.2 with KDE 3.1 and Linux 2.4.20 felt snappier to me then
      SUSE 9.1 with KDE 3.2 and Linux 2.6.4, so I downgraded.

      (on a mobile P2 400MHz with 160MB RAM)

      Paul.
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      • Re: Performance ?
        by thySEus on Monday 09/Aug/2004, @04:42
        Well, this is SuSE specific, cause SuSE is a well overloaded Distribution
        which (my opinion) is not at all made to achieve the maximum performance!
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    • Re: Performance ?
      by AthlonRob on Friday 31/Dec/2004, @15:25
      Slackware doesn't include any of these patches in its default kernels....

      To answer the question one layer up: Yes, 2.6 speeds things up. It's a noticable speed increase on all my systems. It may not like your super-old hardware, though, if it is, indeed, super-old.

      Rob
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