On Sunday 22 Jun 2003 10:37 pm, ed wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 22:18:58 +0100, Phil Deane > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi Folks > > > >I am ruining Mandrake 9.1, on a p3 800MHz with 320Mb PC133 RAM. > > Ruining?
Dammed spellcheckers :) But almost :) I do tend to "experiment" a bit too much :) > > >KDE 3.1 on startup takes about 25 seconds which although doesn't sound > > long, seems to take an eternity. I know there are Wm's which load up > > quickly, but Kde is what I like. > > That's a point. My system is a humble k62-450 with 384 MB RAM, slower > than 133 IIRC. Should that be expected to cope with Mandrake 9.1? > Dont get me wrong, it does cope, and quite well, but KDE is a resource hog. I just want a speed increase. Open Office can take a while to open as well. For example CD's, I dont feel confident burning at more than 16x, and audio at 8x. I dont intend to burn audio faster, but with a 52x drive, data could be burned quicker. MPG encoding take twice as long as the avi I am encoding, whereas people Iknow with a faster system can do it almost realtime -- Phil Deane http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish