I think the BlueCurve-theme slows down Fedora a lot... Try a more simple theme, and Fedora will run a lot faster ! By my computer it helps. Maybe an idea for the Fedora-developers: Tweak the BlueCurve theme. On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:30:57 +0200, Peter Boy <pboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Di, den 13.07.2004 schrieb Thiers Botelho um 23:44: > > Now, as a newbie I'd like to hear any comments on how easy would be for an > > average user to tune FC2 up in order to achieve better performance than > > that of the out-of-box defaults (on the desktop side I mean). > > Maybe, a first question should be: what is the downside of those tuning? > > One example: ext3 is slower as reiserfs in some circumstances. But you > have a better chance to loose all your data being on reiserfs in certain > circumstances as well. You may gain some performance from reiserfs for a > period of time, but may have a severe "loss of performance" while > looking for your latest backup tapes one day. > > Red Hat has been well known for being quite conservative back in the > days of RHL, deciding for stability and reliability over performance. > > Peter > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >