Are you running KDE? If so, that's a lot of overhead for a 120. A RAM upgrade would certainly pay off, but you may like to try a lighter desktop environment - Enlightenment is often mentioned as a good choice for lower overhead and you can still use the KDE apps apparently.
HTH Brian On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 14:50, Jeffrey Madore wrote: > > Greetings: > > I recently installed Mandrake 8.1 on my son's machine which consists of a > 120Mhz processor and 84meg of ram. It now operates deadly slow. My > understanding has been that one advantage of linux is that it runs fine on > older equipment ; that it doesn't require the horsepower, so to speak, that > other OS's like windows does. > > Prior to installing Linux on my son's machine he was running windows 95. That > moved right along. He likes linux but it is dreadfully slow. > > I am running a celeron @ 700Mhz with 512 Meg of ram. The speed is much better > but still slower than windows ME, which I migrated from. > > Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Since I began this journey, I can't > seem to get away from my computer. Though the learning is slow, I am learning > and enjoying experimenting. On the other hand I have 3 boys in school, 3 > machines networked together, and I need a stable system with reasonable speed. > > Any comments would be helpful. Tnx > > Jeff - K1LE - SECT > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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