-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: John Howland <jhowland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Question on running Fedora on Apple PPC] Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:57:12 -0500 (CDT) On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote: > John, > Do you have any advice for this person. Well he doesn't give us much info (such as how much memory he has). If it is just 512M (quite possible for an older machine), then I would say memory is an issue. You can always run top in a window and watch what happens to paging and swapping when starting a gui based app. It also might relate to the video drivers being used. We know that the Mesa based X always works (but slowly) but a better X driver should be used if the machine has an ATI or Nvidia adapter. > Aaron > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Question on running Fedora on Apple PPC > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:36:38 -0500 > > I don't know if anyone else here on the list is running Fedora on > their Apple machine, but I'm going to give this a shot. I have an Apple > Ibook, with a G3 processor. For the most part, I like the way Fedora > runs on it, except for one little problem, and this little problem has > actually forced me to run another distro on the machine. > The problem is, it takes forever for programs to load when I > start them, and it takes forever for the programs to close, and when > running a program, it runs jerky, stops and goes, stops and goes. > Personally, I think I need more ram. I know that's really not alot of > info, and I know from working on PC's myself, that alot of times it's > hard to diagnose a problem without actually seeing the machine, but best > guess, does what I described sound like a memory issue to anyone? > I don't think it's the hard drive, because the other distro I'm running > on the machine runs fine. I would rather be running Fedora though, and > if most of you think the problem is what I think it is, that's simple to > fix. > Anyway, thanks > Jim > > -- > ======================================================================= > XI: If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would > get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty > times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the > managers would fly off. XII: It costs a lot to build bad products. XIII: > There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There > are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle > the two. XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. > There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 > percent of every airplane's weight. XV: The last 10 percent of > performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the > problems. -- Norman Augustine > ======================================================================= > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________________________ John E. Howland url: http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/ Computer Science email: jhowland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Trinity University voice: (210) 999-7364 One Trinity Place fax: (210) 999-7477 San Antonio, Texas 78212-7200 -- ======================================================================= "The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." -- Albert Einstein ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
