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by **Henrik Otterstr?** » Thu, 11 Feb 1999 04:00:00

In a few weeks I'm gettin' my hands on this beauty and would love to install
LinuxPPC. I previosly tried installing Linux on a G3/300 MT (on an external
SCSI HD - not the U/W's it shipped with) and I found it painfully slow
(especially with X).

This is compared to a off-the-shelf windoze-box. Am I too naive as to
believe the PowerPC should beat the pants of the AMD-K6?

Is this simply the state of Linux for PPC? Or am I doing something wrong?

Any pointers or suggestions appreciated,

Regards,
Henrik.

by **Henrik Otterstr?** » Thu, 11 Feb 1999 04:00:00

>> In a few weeks I'm gettin' my hands on this beauty and would love to install
>> LinuxPPC. I previosly tried installing Linux on a G3/300 MT (on an external
>> SCSI HD - not the U/W's it shipped with) and I found it painfully slow
>> (especially with X).

> X is slow due to the Xpmac X server. R5 will integrate a faster X server,
> which should help things considerably. It's the software.

>> This is compared to a off-the-shelf windoze-box. Am I too naive as to
>> believe the PowerPC should beat the pants of the AMD-K6?

> No, it should. On processor things, it generally will. On video (with
> Linux), it drags.

> My solutions: turn off opaque window dragging, or use a different GUI, such as
> Afterstep, which I found to be much faster and stabler (even at v1.0) than KDE
> 1.0.

> I'm writing this on a PBG3/250 running R4 quite happily. :)

OK - thanks for your suggestions / explanations. I'll try just that.

Can't wait for R5 to arrive... Ah, well, patience is character bulding,
right?

Regards,
Henrik.

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