Slow SUSE? Try Slick!

gherikill · 10-31-2005, 11:53 AM

I love Suse but is has always been one of the slowest distros. that is until Slick. It has an optimized kernel and prelinking enable made by the same guy as yoper. Try is out if you are sick of SUSE's sluggish performance.

http://www.opensuse.org/1_CD_install#SLICK

RedShirt · 11-01-2005, 07:10 AM

Sorry, but i have some questions about it before I would use it:
What's this really do?
What is prelinking and how does it work?
I see it mentionts there are still bugs in this version...
Assuming they get it fixed, how much faster does it really go?
Can I "upgrade" my existing install of 10.0 to SLICK?
Does SLICK still have all the SuSE functionality, including YAST, and all?

gherikill · 11-01-2005, 09:04 AM

It is based on SUSE 10, with an optimized kernel. i586 vs i386 that means that it takes advantage of some of the features in modern processors to make it run faster. Prelinking is just a buzz word that means commonly used libraries are loaded at boot so that it appears faster when you use programs that use those libraries. I haven't seen any bugs in slick and have been using it for about a week. You can install any RPM that is built for SUSE 10 and it will work flawlessly.