On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I have a friend who I'm trying to introduce to Linux. I installed
> Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on his system, and everything worked. However, it is
> extremely slow at networking, and swaps all the time. His machine is
> connected to a Road Runner cable modem, so the internet access should be
> extremely fast, but it's not. Netscape gets ~2K/second, and is "slower
> than Windows." He also has Win95 installed in /dev/hda1.
>
> It's installed on a 900MB / (ext2) partition, and has a 120MB swap
> partition (hda5 and hda6, respectively).
>
> If any of you have Linux-based systems running on 32MB, and don't feel
> it's frightfully slow to use GNOME or KDE with it, please say so. If you
> have any ideas as to how to speed up his machine (I've disabled apache,
> bind, and other server daemons), please share them with me. He is an
> intelligent person, and a very good computer user, and a programmer. He
> insists he's going to delete it tomorrow, and I'd rather see him happy,
> using Linux for his everyday stuff.
>
>
Upgrade the RAM! 32MB is pushing it QUITE a bit! I've got a 32-meg
system here (K6-300) and it's somewhat slow. It also depends on what
sort of CPU speed you have. Please keep in mind that Mandrake is
optimized for Pentium or better (maybe even PII by now!)
