Tales from Responsivenessland: Why Linux Feels Slow, and How to Fix That | Linux Today

Tales from Responsivenessland: Why Linux Feels Slow, and How to Fix That

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 4, 2007

[ Thanks to Rudd-O
for this link. ]

“Desktop performance on Linux computers has been a hot-button
issue of late, and a source of longstanding fights among the Linux
developers. Today, I want to show you how I boosted (and you can
boost) desktop performance dramatically.

“What’s the number one cause of desktop performance
problems?

“Let me answer that question with another set of
questions…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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