On Sunday 20 January 2002 15:47, you wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:08:50 +0100, "Assassin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it is very slow on my machine (K6-II 450, 128 RAM, TNT2, 20GB > > Quantum, with kernel 2.4.3). How can I optimise it so it can load and run > > applications faster? > > The best way is to run fast software. KDE is probably the slowest of the > lot, closely followed by GNOME/Sawfish with Nautilus enabled. I have a > Pentium II 350MHz system, and I find GNOME/Sawfish _without_ Nautilus (or > with GMC, which can replace Nautilus) to be reasonably fast. Otherwise, you > should look at alternative window managers and environments like XFce, > Enlightenment, IceWM, WIndowMaker, Blackbox/Fluxbox and PWM/Ion, all of > which are lighter than GNOME and KDE. > > Once that's done, you can look into fast applications, like Galeon (web > browsing), Sylpheed (e-mail) and Downloader for X (downloading). I'm a bit > biased towards GTK+ 1.2 apps because I generally find them to be far faster > than QT2 apps. They are also great apps in their own right. > > If you feel up to it (it can be a bit tricky), you may also wish to upgrade > your kernel and XFree86 to more recent versions. The versions included in > Mandrake 8.1 are a little old now.
I do recall Civileme saying once that the 2.2 kernel was faster on machines of restricted capability, though I do not recall why. derek
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