[geeks] WTF - Linux on a laptop...

[doctor obnox son of a bitch]

Bill Bradford spoke in riddles, like the night...

> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 09:30:35AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > True, but the downside of that is, at the moment Firefox 0.8 appears to
> > be very usable on Windows but not ready for prime time on Linux.  On my
> > machine at least (Athlon XP1800+ with half a gig of DDR333 RAM running a
> > Slackware-based custom install), Firefox becomes unresponsive (and the
> > mouse becomes unresponsive when in Firefox's window) for up to about 30
> > seconds when loading URLs.
> 
> Exact opposite of that here- I'm even running through a SSH tunnel to
> tinyproxy on ohno.mrbill.net, and it's speedyfast.
> 
> Bill (1Ghz TBird AMD, 256M, Fedora Core 1)
> 
> -- 
> bill bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> austin, texas
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 The linux version of Firebird 0.7 works quite nicely on my
 FreeBSD 5.2 box, even with only a 266 p][.

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