Re: PCMCIA, performance, Open Office

Jeff Muse wrote:

>Hi all - 
>
>A quick (not particularly thorough) look through the archive didn't turn 
>either of these up, so...
>
>1) On at least three distributions (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE), starting card 
>services hangs laptops. I've seen this on laptops from Toshiba, Dell, and HP. 
>You need to use an interactive startup or a boot disk to disable pcmcia so 
>you can even get to a prompt. I've had this problem occur over the course of 
>several years, so it doesn't seem to have gotten much attention.
>
>Once you get the system to boot, you might need to build a new version of 
>pcmcia-cs. I've also noticed that networking starts before pcmcia does...but 
>I've got a PCMCIA NIC, so I re-ordered the startup scripts.
>
>2) Why can't we have a distribution that's as fast and light as slackware, but 
>has all the software SuSE or Mandrake does? And for that matter, why can't 
>KDE run as fast as Blackbox or WindowMaker? Don't give me this nonsense about 
>C++ and linking problems...I want speed, darn it!
>

You want gentoo then, faster then slackware yet just as streamline, 
almost as much software as SuSE, and KDE flys honest!(just takes awhile 
to compile), and gentoo runs on x86,alpha,ppc,and the PS2.

>
>3) Why does text displayed in Open Office tend to get garbled until the window 
>is resized? I've had this happen on multiple distributions, with multiple 
>machines, with multiple releases.
>
>I'll probably think of more after I post, but these are a start. In addition, 
>I want to be positive, even if it's a little off topic. Therefore:
>
>1) I've never made a coaster under Linux with cdrecord or X-CD-Roast.
>
>2) I've run snort for weeks at a time inside my Linux firewall and picked up 
>nothing.
>
>3) I laugh every time someone sends me a virus.
>
>Jeff
>
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