Mandrake 8.x is roughly equivalent to Windows 2000, at least if you are running KDE. That is a serious drag on a P120. Some things that may help are:
Upgrade your kernel to 2.4.17 (this can help, but not much in the case of a P120) Install more ram (again, some help, but the P120 will always be a bottleneck) Install an older distro (mdk 7.x or RH 6.x--roughly equiv to W95-W98, depending on how far back in the 7 series you go and which 2.2.x kernel you use). Personally, with a P120, I wouldn't use anything past mdk 7.1. Use a lighter gui (I like Xfce a lot). Don't use the big, memory hogging apps like StarOffice or Konquerer file manager (try Abiword or xwc. Mozilla may work o.k., but Opera will be quicker to load.) You may be able to tweak 8.1 so that you can use it, but it will never be more than just useable. I have 8.0 on a P200 with 128 megs, running Xfce (blackbox is just too minimal for my taste), and with careful selection of what apps I use it is just o.k. 7.2 and kernel 2.2.17 was very nice on that machine. With my P233, 284 megs, running Xfce and mdk 8.0, I have a very snappy box. I have made a useable machine of a P75 with 48 megs and RH6.0, and a nice one with a P133 with 32 megs and SuSe 6.2, so it is possible with the older distros. You're pushing it with the new ones, though. jmo e. On Thursday 14 February 2002 20:51, you 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 ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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