The problem with this answer is that the guy has 192MB of RAM, and 2 hard drives. I can't vouch for his disk space availability, but 192MB should still be plenty of RAM in which to run KDE.
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Calbazana, Al wrote: > I assume you are booting straight to some X environment (KDE, Gnome, and > Enlightenment). IMO, using a GUI with such low resources is asking for it. > If you are going to use a machine like that, consider booting straight to > command line :) Besides, that's the best way to learn! > > Thanks, > > Alejandro > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anders Thoresson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 8:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: newbie question: how to speed up linux > > I've just taken my first stumbling steps down on the Linux road, > installing Redhat 7.3. Many things have impressed me so far, but the > over all speed of my system is a big dissappointment. Compared to when I > run Windows 95 and Windows 2000 on the same computer, almost everything > seems to take for ever. > > Clicking "New Message" in Evolution until the new message turns up > takes a couple of seconds. Starting OpenOffice 1.0 Writer somewhere > between 30 seconds and a minute. Recieving 500 mails or so from my ISP > somewhere between 15 och 30 minutes. > > My computer is a PII-233, ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC for video, 192 MB RAM > and 2 ATA33 hard drives. > > What's the bottleneck? Could anything besides plugging in more RAM be > done to boost the performance? > > Best regards, > > Anders > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
