I finally have an acceptably stable install of YDL 6 with a couple of minor kludges:
- for some reason my PS3 eth0 insists on coming up as a wireless connection even though it is hardwired.
- I have to deactivate and activate my eth0 for the network to work fully.
I can live with that. Performance for basic tasks, email, surfing, nMapping and straight forward apps are okay. However, when I work with Eclipse, not only is the interface a bit doggie (Yellow Doggie I guess) but the compile java project to class times are pretty nasty using just the basic Hello World test
I didn't make any difference whether I was in E17, Gnome or KDE. I stripped out wallpapers and unneeded server services (dns, sendmail?); I still got sticky windows and long times to compile and "run as" tests.
I enjoy installing and fooling around with OS's, but my time is pretty tight these days and I would like to have a reasonably good *nix or *bsd install that I can actually use as a creative tool when I'm in couch potato mode and have an idea. So, I'm asking for some guidance either with links, or suggestion on how I can end up with something that performs reasonably especially when it might be getting hammered on multithreading.
I get the impression that if I did a compiled and tweaked Gentoo install (yo H.axen) I might get what I want. But I would hate to go down that road and end up with the same poor performance if this is totally hardware or hypervisor limited.
Any feedback?
Yellow Dog performance not a happy puppy
