Fedora 16's Performance

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 10:41 -0700, Lawrence Graves wrote:
> 
> On 12/14/2011 10:09 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > On 12/14/2011 11:18 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
> >> I am writing this because I am beginning to get frustrated with 
> >> Fedora 16. I am on the verge of going back to Fedora 15 so I can have 
> >> some peace of mind. There was a time up until now that after a RC 
> >> release it would settle down and run nice but with this Release that 
> >> is not the case. I am not giving up on Fedora as a whole but when you 
> >> can't make anything run without freezing screens and nvidia drivers 
> >> won't install it becomes frustrating.
> >
> > Maybe I made a lot of changes at once, from a HP nc2400 with f14 to a 
> > Lenovo x120e with f16.  I have not noticed any slowdowns even though 
> > the HP was a duo core and the Lenovo is single.  So I would put the 
> > suspect on the nvidia cruft.  And nvidia for some reason has been a 
> > long time sore spot with Fedora.
> >
> >
> I just re-installed Fedora 16 on my desktop and before the re-install 
> every thing was running fine. Now Gnome3 is freezing and nautilus is 
> having trouble opening and the list goes on. I agree with Christopher 
> and Cox, maybe there needs to be a slow down on the eye candy and work 
> on a solid foundation for the eye candy to run on. It seems that we are 
> falling into the cart before horse syndrome.

OT: I think you need to check your mail settings. Many of your messages
seem to appear twice with slightly different times. Probably not
Gnome3's fault this time :-)

poc