On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:01:15 +0100 "Rodrigues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just installed mandrake linux 9.1 on my old toshiba laptop > (166mhz and 48meg of RAM). The installation and smoothly, I just had > to disable pcmcia configuration and the pcmcia daemon. > > I have two major gripes with my installation: > > 1. The GUI looks horrible. Everything looks big and ugly. Several > windows (the mandrake configuration window for ex.) appear much bigger > than the available screen space. > > 2. The system is horribly slow. I know I can't expect much from my > clunky laptop I don't have any great answers but don't give up. I'm running 9.1 on an old HP omnibook with a P166 and 48 Meg and the install was a doddle except for sound which took a lot of trial and error. (The sticker says designed for windows 98!!!!) My screen is running at 800x600 and looks fine. My only suggestions are, are you running at 640x480 perhaps or is the virtual screen set to a larger size than the actual screen? Speed wise avoid the heavy desktop environments like KDE, I use ICEWM with the Rox filemanager. When looking at what you want to run I see no real problems except possably Java. I haven't really used any Java apps for a while but when my main PC was a P166 I gave up on Java apps because they were painfully slow. Why do I use a 166 omnibook, because they are small, light cheap and great, I love them!!!! OK, I cann't watch movies, but I've got a TV for that, but I can write reports, do spreadsheets and listen to ogg files, who wants more. Good luck Nigel PS. I will never buy top of the range hardware again. My next upgrade is from my 500MHz desktop to a second hand 2.3GHz that the owners selling for a quarter of what it cost a year ago. What is there in Word 6 that the average user needs that wasn't in Word 2 that ran on a 386? Sorry, but I sometimes think that software is designed to run at a speed that encourages you to upgrade.
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