* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi all, > > My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400 > celeron processor. > > I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon for > web and evolution for mail. > > Performance is appalling. Konqueror takes 13 seconds to launch. Galeon > takes 10 seconds. Evolution takes 15 seconds. Even Eterm takes over 10 > seconds. Switching between apps takes forever and involves screens > freezing. > > My suspicion is that konqueror runs a ton of kde stuff, evolution > likewise for gnome stuff and that enlightenment may use more than a > processor cycle or ten thousand. But I don't know really.
Your suspicion is correct. Buy a better laptop, or get rid of all the bloated apps you listed above and use mc for file management, lynx for web and mutt for mail. Dima -- We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people. -- Chris King
