ubuntu kicks butt. hmm. I want to share this directory, right click on it, click share, select share with windows computers (smb), ubuntu apt-gets smb in the background, meanwhile I enter the share...
it actually feels slower? is there a memory leak going on?
if it's just the clock that slows down, it could be your system clock. the ezabel server used to drift a few minutes every day. i think it might have been the BIOS battery going or something..
the whole system feels slow. I wish I had a way of benchmarking it to figure it out. the system monitor and ps don't show any high memory or cpu usage, but its definitely much much slower.
as for the clock, it gets slow by like 30 minutes or an hour over the course of a day if I don't have ntpupdate working. I think most os's only read the internal clock once at bootup.
you have the same problem with both KDE and GNOME?
so to use KDE: from synaptic, I just need to install kubuntu desktop? (and its required packages?)
phew... 152 new packages...
it will automatically setup everything needed, and it will add a session option to your login screen
yeah, same problem even using kubuntu. I kept the machine on all night and now its very slow. I'm shutting it down, and what should take about a minute is taking like 15 minutes+
I have no idea what's causing this. oh well.
Ah man that stinks! Must be some kind of bad driver, I don't know.
yeah. sucks though. time to do some digging.
Did you try the live CDs?
nah, I forgot to bring in/burn some. I did find some info on linux compatability with this machine. apparently its either a hyperthreading issue, a CPU heat issue or a opengl screensaver issue:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-September/msg02830.html
(although this guy installed fedora core 2, and he uses the word "crash") could be the same problem.
and searching other places says it could be a bios problem, so I'm going to update that first
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/03/msg00142.html
the machine is an ibm thinkcentre 8187