This means disabling paging, prefetch, and write-caching. On top of that, it really pays off to sift through services. Big gains can be made by disabling things like the indexing service. The final step for me, apart from installing some of my favourite programs like Miranda, VLC, WinPatrol, and Chrome, is installing an office suite. The best option is to download something called Tiny Office The applications it installs literally load instantly as in, less than a second!
After all this hard work, you are rewarded with a very fast installation of Windows XP, that actually outperforms Ubuntu in day-to-day tasks. Sleep and wake cycle is faster, it boots faster, applications load faster, and it leaves more memory for applications with no applications running, over MB of the MB are free.
I never could have imagined Windows XP running better than Linux on this netbook. I have really proven myself wrong. My netbook is more functional, faster, more responsive, and has less hickups and stutters than while running Linux. I know this is something some of you might not like to hear, but it is a fact for me. Of course, as always, your mileage may very, especially on other types of netbooks with different specifications.
One of the things that stuck me is that running a vanilla i. One of the things about all the windows dialogs and widgets that I like are that they are much more densly packed than even condensed gtk themes and as a result my desktop tends to have more space for content as opposed to wasted space for an ok button.
Then again more densely packed also means less readable on small screens…each to his own I guess. And yes! Your netbook has more similarities with an old desktop than with a modern one. But as long as it covers your needs…. The problems arise when you start adding stuff like… your software, which includes crap like antivirus and antispyware tools.
A friend of mine is able to strip a non-nLited XP install to a bare 40 megs of memory consumption. Before installing apps, however. I love how people always mention AV software. Yeah, I have some installed, but it is NOT running in the background at all. I manually run it about once a month. I never have viruses or anything of the sort. Let the nagging begin! Viruses and trojans and friends vs. If I personally have to set up a system with windows as some people who I want to help do want me to do sometimes … this is what I would use:.
Moon Secure AV is an opensource antivirus currently using the clamav engine due to fast response time and huge AV database, however we are implementing another engine that is heuristic and will allow users to customize the engine on the fly.
Unlike clam it has an enterprise level real-time scanner. It is built for windows and will run on XP and vista. It can scan portable drives and fixed drives. It is able to detect viruses, Trojans and spyware. Our vision is to release an enterprise level antivirus, which can be used in any windows environment. The aim is to provide a superior antivirus capable with competing with the market leaders and still at the same price, free!
We aim to be part of an opensource suite which will allow all users to still use the environment they are comfortable with but benefit from the terrific opensource community. Are you serious? You can buy XP versions of the Acer right out of the store. I agree. Vodafone is sponsoring an open source development group to bring support for these 3G USB wireless network connections and other hardware.
My god it was SLOW, even when disabling everything. It was much much better. In my experience with several xp boxes and several linux boxes, the linux ones generally feel more responsive. Dont get me wrong Windows XP is great, but I think it suffers when you have a few resource-intensive processes running at once. One bad connection pulls all explorer windows to a halt. Another example is when you put a cd into the cdrom drive — the whole system stops for a few seconds while it tries to read from the disk.
Linux just seems to deal with IO and overall system load so much better — probably its server roots coming into play i guess. And this is just in my experience so others mileage may vary. Yup, I used ext2. Many people forget that Windows XP is actually a very mature, stable, and highly optimised piece of kit. It takes some work, but it can be made to run properly on a lot of old crap — and this netbook, in case we forget, has a hyperthreading processor running at 1.
The big problem with Ubuntu is not so much the OS itsellf, but the applications. So all you know to do is slap Ubuntu on he netbook, not knowing first thing about Linux obviously.
For you, it might — for me, in this specific case? XP is the winner for me. But hey, I am a man of science, and I want to see something with my own eyes before passing judgement. Maybe I already looked over all the offerings, and concluded that none of the 3G modems included work flawlessly on Linux? Ext2 is indeed not a journaling filesystem, but it is getting quite venerable now and it has the worst performance of filesystems that you could choose for Linux. Note that FAT32 is not one of them.
The difference is so screamingly obvious — the Firefox user interface is supersluggish on Linux. Did you use ext2 on SSD? Of course, you must have had very slow performance with ext2!
It has been around for quite some time now and jffs3 will soon replace it. I can also say that the wireless speed was better under WinXP. That probably helped Firefox to be faster. Precisely so. Uhm… What are you guys complaining about? You guys would have a point if I used a log-structured filesystem on Windows, but not on Linux, and then compared performance of the two. The next step is setting up a striped volume across the SSD and an SD card, which supposedly gives a massive speed bump.
TXT 8. It has been heavily cludged since then, but it still lacks even elementary features needed by a modern OS. Good luck with your system security running with FAT, Thom. It just happens to work tolerably well with SSDs. Almost by accident, really … certainly not by design. So if you want to actually compare speeds, and you yourself have said that you believed writing to the SSD by firefox was the cause of the slowdown. BTW, if this were true, would happen in Windows to the same extent as in Linux, since firefox is the same codebase.
So if you actually wanted to draw a fair comparison to Linux, you should actually use a filesystem that can support Linux and also happens to be suitable for use on a SSD. That is all, Thom. No-one is having a go at you … rather just pointing out the disjoint in your logic where you seem to have concluded that XP is faster when in fact what you did was compare XP on a cut-down capability and hence faster filesystem to a hobbled Linux install that was nowhere near as tuned to your hardware.
In your hurry to defend Linux-no-matter-what like you do in every story on OSNews, you made a generalisation that I most certainly did not make anywhere in the article. Of course, as always, your mileage may very , especially on other types of netbooks with different specifications.
You make it sound like linux and Windows are equal and should be equal. However, you should make it clear that linux is slower when used just like Windows, not when you use it as it should be used. You can not modify one bit on a SSD, you have to modify and merge the whole erase block. On the other hand, seek time is negligible. This is very different than floppy. On the other hand, a file system specifically tuned for SSD will take advantage of the good features and mitigate the bad features.
With jffs2, you can also have your data compressed and the compression is tuned for erase block size before writing, which makes it significantly faster than writing the raw data. On the other hand, a file system tuned for slow computer will not use compression because it will slow down the system significantly. A little bit slower booting and shutting down time, but not that bad because all data is written in one chunk, and that makes the erase block problem less of a problem. Also choose and tune your applications wisely.
When you try to compare windows and linux, you are wrong since the start. Comparing Ubuntu to Windows makes some sense, but comparing linux to Windows is dead wrong.
You overlook the fact that linux is a kernel. Choose the right tools with linux and you will have the right system. You can use whatever with linux, whereas NT There really is no end to your inability to properly read and quote sources, is there? Let me quote it for you.
Hint: it has nothing to do with performance or being fit for the job. So, uhm? When you try to compare the two, you are wrong from the start. No problem man, be happy with Windows. I was just pointing, as a comment to your article that you used linux incorrectly and that there is an alternative to Windows for performance: use linux correctly.
This comments section is horrible. Thom put time in trying to get it to work. By bleating that he was incompetent and should have done this and that you are basically making the point that Linux is harder to use, and are doing so better than any Microsoft astroturfer could.
Thom is not some computer newb. By telling the world that he is to blame for his Linux performance deficit on the Aspire, you are making it clear that ordinary computer users with little experience in alternative OSs have no hope of getting Linux to run acceptably on a mid. On the eee forums, users of the 16G version of the without the fast 4gb drive seem to be of the consensus that it seems to be unacceptably slow with Windows but fine with Linux.
Acer made a mistake and inappropriately used the ext2 filesystem for the SSD rather than jffs2 or logfs. What is wrong with you? Why do you keep putting words in my mouth that I never used! Where did I say so? Same thing with the fat32 vs. This is why we have benchmarks, or at least an article regarding the new interface for small laptops from ubuntu or a look at the new filesystem in linux designed for SSDs.
So did you mount the FS in Linux with noatime or relatime? A slow SSD is probably where this bring the biggest savings.. Yes: If you used BeOS you know that most all? Not hard to believe. The anything-but-Microsoft people may not like it but Windows is the most usable operating system for older computers. Yes, there are distributions like DSL but they are generally too different and too hard to use.
It caches all changes to file system to RAM at sector level my understanding. If you need to save changes you can commit them manually or automatically on some condition. Of course this adds some complexity to daily usage. Edit: URL linking too confusing for me here. Wow what a neat article. Aero ran fine on Vista, and runs just as well on Windows 7. The cleaned-up system tray also helps in this regard. In my Windows 7 beta review , I noted a performance issue with Aero where dragging windows around seemed a little sticky.
I can say this so confidently because I just bought a new computer , and it comes with an Ati videocard. This machine lacks the performance problems. My netbook, which has an Intel video chipset, also lacks the problems. I used to have a huge amount of customer loyalty towards them. The last years they have managed to erode it all away. Between a huge dive in driver quality, and defective hardware on a massive scale especially in the mobile space, it is hard to believe they are still making money.
Get their act together? The OS isnt released yet and nvidia prolly havent time to iron out issues before after they considdered the API stable which maybe isnt that long ago. Well, Ati and Intel have perfectly working drivers. The driver API is pretty much the same in Vista and 7. Plasma is exposing Nvidia driver bugs since then and NVidia is acting really slow to fix them. While some bugs are fixed most notably the ultra slow rendering speed and corrupted graphics when OpenOffice is visible , others remain.
Tray icons are still mostly distorted for example. I never had those problems on my other PC with a Radeon card. Not sure of the point of this article as knowing how to install Windows 7 on the Aspire One, or Any Other Netbook is all very well, even if tedious. I have tried doing this in the past Here is my output.
My F: which is my usb key is not visible, but under explorer it is. This is just like Linux. Where can I download the. Can I do all this from Linux? What an amatuer you are at trolling…. I was not intending to troll.. What tool would you prefer? I just have to select the ISO file, the device and it just works.
IMO this will be the only really viable way of running a full-powered desktop experience at speed on a netbook. Then tell it to mount the iso from the hard drive or from the USB key and it will install your Mandriva. Just let the iso on the hard drive and you can go. If anything the last year of netbook experiments has given the linux distro maintainers time to try to get their act together to put together useful distros.
Having an acer aspire one myself previously having access to an EEE this thing works great as a web access device, webmail reader and for watching media. It should also work well for taking notes. That is all. Im a big fan of the cards but when they have had a beta product Vista for so long and still release drivers which had poor performance and would BSOD a computer on RTM then they was seriously lazy.
In the same timeframe early as their problem with Vista drivers, nVidia also had a huge performance problem with their driver for Linux. This problem has only just recently been fixed. The Vista problem, at least, was fixed within a couple of months. If yours works properly, hang tight — the next driver version will cause mine to work properly and yours not to work.
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