On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jeffrey Madore wrote: > 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 >
It's probably the X app you are runing, you didn't say. Thee have been threads concerning different desktops. Which one are you running, and maybe someone on the list can rate the different desktops, - Fastest to Slowest -- Gerald Waugh
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