Bea is very slow and unresponsive

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Do you have another PC you can test your CD on? Perhaps there is a problem with your CD. Did you check the md5sum of the ISO after you downloaded it?
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You can't have everything... an OS that's fast to use AND fast to burn :)
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Hmm.. maybe it's Beagle and its indexation. Try removing Beagle and after a reboot, see if the performance are better.

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Clem. I think this is an amazing release. I installed it yesterday and I love it! For the past few weeks I have been playing around with 5-6 linux distros and though I liked Ubuntu, found it full of problems. For instance I couldn't use skype, my sound card was always locking up at login, I had to go to the terminal and kill esd before I could login. I had the same problem with Barbara. I occasionally have experienced this in bea, though not all the time!!

I am curious as to why the lock up occurs at logon. If you find time to answer please keep in mind that I am a noob.

With Bea I have full multimedia support, my computer runs really well and is fast. I did not find it slow and unresponsive. Sadly though my ATI card does not support 3D effects. I think Bea is here to stay on my hard drive permanently. I am even going to install it on my parents comp when I visit them next.

Anyhow congratulations on this great release (even though this is a beta its the best distro that I have used). I am going to spread the word about Bea wherever I can.
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Waoo thanks :)

It's nice to hear that.

I believe Skype doesn't use ALSA and that creates problems and interfere with other audio applications. And because it's not open-source there's nothing we can do to fix that problem.. (I might be wrong on that though).

I used Skype on Linux by the past and although it is a nice application I never found it very stable.

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The menu uses the icon theme, which is cached to optimize performances. The first time you look at the menu, the cache is generated and that makes it slower (also, it obviously doesn't use the cache but reads from the icon theme directly...).

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sodix wrote:
sodix wrote:O.K. I downloaded again the iso and burned it with slow speed (8x).
Everything is fine now :)
oh my, seems i have to amend my word.

i tried again the newly dowloaded cd, and regret to inform that apparently the problem is still there :(

btw, i also downloaded and tried xpress linux, ulteo and pioneer linux (all of them based on ubuntu).

xpress linux and ulteo boot and work fine, but pioneer linux has the excatly the same problem with bea.

all the best
Hello, sodix!

I hope that you are still using Linux Mint Bea and perhaps have solved your problem. I have a very similar performance problem but only when my router is turned off and I try to use Gnome applications. For more details you can check out my original thread in the "General Help" forum. Let me know if your problem is like mine or completely different.

Regards,
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