Gnucash performance

[Keith Bellairs]

Sure. HP now supports linux, so you can probably find everything you
need. Try Googling "hp laptop linux" for lots of information. You can
1. Wipe the disk and do a complete linux install -- then you have no
more Windows -- many of consider this the ideal solution.
2. Install linux in a second partition on your hard drive and be set
to "dual boot" so you can run either one -- this takes more fooling
around.
3. Install VMWare (or other virtualization system) and run linux in a
virtual machine on your Windows box -- I go the other way and (4) run
Windows in a VM on my linux box.

As you mentioned, there are many, many different distributions of
linux. They all have the linux kernel, but then differ in the way they
package and set up the rest of the system. Take a look and see which
ones have worked well for other HP laptop users. I think I have heard
that many think Ubuntu is very good for desktop applications.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Youssef Ltaief <ltai0001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> hey
>  I read your post and was curious about linux
>  I went to www.linux.org to get more general info and got confused as to what version I should install... there is so many of them. I see you are using SuSe, but what about debian, redhat, mandrake, etc.......
>  which one is better....
>  By the way, I have a regular hp laptop with windows vista, can I install Linux on it??
>  Thanks
>  Youssef
>
>  ----- Original Message ----
>  From: Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org>
>  To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>  Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 5:51:31 PM
>  Subject: Gnucash performance
>
>  I have been using Linux on the desktop for about 10 years and Gnucash
>  for the past several, having gladly escaped from Quicken. My gnc file
>  is about 2 MB zipped, so there is a lot of data there.
>
>  Performance had been getting worse and worse. It took minutes to open
>  or save the file. Reports were impossible and simple edits of
>  transactions were like wading in quicksand. I thought the end of the
>  line was coming and that I would have to find a better financial tool.
>
>  Then I noticed that even Firefox was unbearably slow. Then I noticed
>  that my wife's eeePC was several times faster than my 1.8GHz P4 with 1
>  GB of RAM (not impressive, but 3x faster than an eeePC). So instead of
>  going out to buy a quad core, I took a look at my kernel.
>
>  I had been running SuSe a couple of years ago, then went through
>  fedora core 6 and currently was running the stock, but up to date,
>  fedora core 8 kernel. I had sort of assumed that the installer picked
>  out a kernel that would work on my box. WRONG.
>
>  If you are having performance problems with Gnucash and are running a
>  stock kernel, you need to build one that works. I compiled a kernel
>  for a non-SMP i686 and suddenly using GNC is like wandering in a
>  spring garden with flowers and birds and butterflies. The difference
>  is an order of magnitude. It reminds of the days when I had to custom
>  compile a kernel to get it run my laptop. Dooh! Linux is a brisk, fun
>  OS.
>
>  So please do not blame the developers for performance problems (he
>  said shamefacedly) if your computing environment is not working right.
>  As I said, my experience recently has been with SuSe and Fedora.
>  Perhaps you users of other distros have not had to go through this.
>  (Anyone using Gentoo?) Or perhaps my experience is totally obvious.
>  Just thought I'd mention it.
>
>  Keith
>  Guelph ON
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