From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882471387D3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:49:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C4A3E0900; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:49:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com (mail-wg0-f44.google.com [74.125.82.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E93E3E08F8 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:49:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id y10so4305065wgg.3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:49:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lHAbZfVMDQ1pXFUm8rxd99kuPVYNMEDzoP1TxLZZEMI=; b=WQ5CA35Nw5Nshxdv6+59+TuYZZxKdLj2FiG2FSupaG6/HXQGreIzXGkFsi0fBLDtYh Q04kgLeicQFK+ipzGieJDmiIO1iTaQP4tuN4IfI3tg4XSI2PtEgRDoO8AEvuwdq+hS1q Yxv57/Ud2isSIhy+Ds6FwvuaaMgZiKHeENo6Sw5RHmzxig8m/ReFUW71++LWM88uqnw+ tQdNfbTUxml9EQkowwpZoAo1WsdXaxVE5ngHUcfk1qb3/DLhNNx5cE/HzRKn4hFq/icf 4EV2Znv5PuJtoaaMCFLCZY/0bik9zFlCK2BzSYgXh1z1EuNKO0tFINrZcVu3zbrBh8+H gFvg== X-Received: by 10.180.103.33 with SMTP id ft1mr16706712wib.71.1414360148631; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:49:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-231-134.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.231.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ge1sm9691298wib.4.2014.10.26.14.49.06 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:49:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <544D6C49.3090205@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 23:48:57 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels References: <544D4FB6.3030701@googlemail.com> <544D51E6.6030302@alectenharmsel.com> <544D6344.8010101@alectenharmsel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 42c8bc13-0004-4c46-9330-fc760b83b3ef X-Archives-Hash: d3822a3bfa00d182044db26971eda53f On 26/10/2014 23:23, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> Must be nice; my laptop is so old that it boots slowly regardless of my >> > choice of init system. > You should try getting it an SSD. It brings back old laptops from the > grave: most desktop software has been I/O bound for some time, and > with a fast SSD, even an old laptop can become usuable again. +1 It used to be that more RAM was the easiest way to get performance gains out of not-so-bleeding-edge anymore hardware. Nowadays, most machine tend to have enough RAM (unless the owner made a silly decision at purchase time), but an SSD is an instant, gigantic performance upgrade. This here laptop for instance - once the bios screen gets out of the way it's 8 seconds to a dm login screen, all due to the SSD. Firefox takes much longer than that to re-open all the tabs from last session, not much I can do about that sadly. This damn thing is so fast I tend forget just how fast it is, and remember when dealing with issues on my user's Ubuntu workstations :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com