Hello Bob.

20 Aug 04 19:45, you wrote to Andrew Clarke:



 BL>  I'm beginning to see the value of Linux! At present, I'm typing this
 BL> in windows on the Windows machine, networking to the Linux box for the
 BL> files (and the modem), and at the same time Linus is running a KDE
 BL> desktop installing some more Gnome stuff (YAST2 is good at that sort
 BL> of thing), but I've also got a Gnome desktop running on the Windows
 BL> machine!

 BL>  It doesn't even seem to slow down much! Win98, eat your heart out!

there's a couple of tricks to that, what linux (some versions anyway) does
is give the Xserver (the bit that draws the mouse and graphics etc on the
screen) a higher priority than the ordinary user processes. this mkes the
user interface more snappy without slowing down the applications noticably.
(they acctally seem faster when they interact with the user)

the other trick is to have the background jobs (like software updates) run
with a lower priority.

I don't think windows 98 has the concept of priorites, NT (etc) does.

 BL>  This seems to be the way to use a PC: run Windows networked to a
 BL> Linux box as a gateway, and use VNC to run the Linux machine. It
 BL> would
 BL> make more sense to install the Linux motherboard *inside* the Windows
 BL> box.

:)

Jasen

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