what kernel? the default? to quote civilme: "Even more helpful is kernel 2.4.17 or later because the virtual memory algorithm thrashes the disk much less. This was the big slow-down for the changeover to kernel 2.4"
upgrade that kernel. also on a 120, maybe enlightenment or lighter. KDE will be slow, no doubts there. On Thursday 14 February 2002 19:50, you spoke unto me thusly: > 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 -- If the human brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. shane registered linux user @ http://counter.li.org/ http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html
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