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I recently installed Fedora 9 on a Toshiba M40 laptop 1.89Ghz and 1G ram but Vmware and Google Earth seem to run very slowly. I run Fedora 8 before
but this is too slow. Same programs on Windows XP run perfectly. Should I go back to Fedora 8 or perhaps Ubuntu?
I have ubuntu running perfectly on an M40 with both vmware and google earth. Do all opengl applications have performance issues, or just google earth? Are you using vmware player, workstation or server?
I have ubuntu running perfectly on an M40 with both vmware and google earth. Do all opengl applications have performance issues, or just google earth? Are you using vmware player, workstation or server?
I even tried Celestia with same poor results. I use the latest server edition of vmware downloaded from official site. Cpu usage is above 90%.
I repeat Fedora 8 never showed susch problems.
Which Ubuntu you run?
Dimitris
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