Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 vs Redhat 6.2
On Friday 11 January 2002 20:09, Erylon wrote: On Friday 11 January 2002 06:10, you wrote: or the equivalent of RH6.2 is Mandrake 7.x? not sure but have read some comments passing the requirements of Mandrake 8.x as the same as those of WinXP (meaning not for relatively slow processors). I've got 8.0 on a 200mhz with 128 megs of ram and it runs o.k. (no speed demon, but very useable). It's pretty good with xfce and the xfce file manager, but konquerer and some of the other kde apps are slow loading. Opera is nice, but Netscape takes quite a while to load, so my recommendation with a slower machine and the 8.x distros is go toward minimalistic and it will o.k. Eye candy has a price. Remember it's not the distro as such that sets the speed of the system, it's the kernel and, more importantly, what you're trying to get the kernel to handle. Newer versions of software packages may run faster or slower, depending what the developers are up to: generally developers try to get their programs to work faster, but on the other hand, they also put in new features, which frequently slow them down, and sometimes assume that users have fast processors and tons of RAM. If speed is an issue, as Erylon said, cut down on the eye candy: use IceWM or Blackbox as your window manager rather than KDE or GNOME, use Mozilla instead of Netscape and only use Star Office if you have time on your hands. It's also worth checking what services you're using, as it's very easy during installation to install and run daemons you don't really need, or don't need to have running all the time. If you prefer an older distribution, RH 6.0 and Mandrake 7.2 are both good (use RedHat if your CPU is older than a Pentium I), but unless your machine is a real antique, I'd wait for Mandrake 8.2. Robin -- One ping to rule them all, one ping to bind them - Arya Stark Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 vs Redhat 6.2
On Friday 11 January 2002 06:10, you wrote: or the equivalent of RH6.2 is Mandrake 7.x? not sure but have read some comments passing the requirements of Mandrake 8.x as the same as those of WinXP (meaning not for relatively slow processors). just a thought... I've got 8.0 on a 200mhz with 128 megs of ram and it runs o.k. (no speed demon, but very useable). It's pretty good with xfce and the xfce file manager, but konquerer and some of the other kde apps are slow loading. Opera is nice, but Netscape takes quite a while to load, so my recommendation with a slower machine and the 8.x distros is go toward minimalistic and it will o.k. Eye candy has a price. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LM 8.1 vs Redhat 6.2
I have a Redhat 6.2 system running on a 133 Mhz Pentium with 64 MB memory, and It is much faster than my LM 8.1 running on a 450 Mhz AMD K6, 256 MB memory I mean the diff is probably 10X. Does anyone have any ideas as to why the LM 8.1 would be so slow? Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 vs Redhat 6.2
probly running some servers and/or services you don't need, and MDK runs them if you installed them by default. On Thursday 10 January 2002 08:29, you wrote: I have a Redhat 6.2 system running on a 133 Mhz Pentium with 64 MB memory, and It is much faster than my LM 8.1 running on a 450 Mhz AMD K6, 256 MB memory I mean the diff is probably 10X. Does anyone have any ideas as to why the LM 8.1 would be so slow? Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 vs Redhat 6.2
or the equivalent of RH6.2 is Mandrake 7.x? not sure but have read some comments passing the requirements of Mandrake 8.x as the same as those of WinXP (meaning not for relatively slow processors). just a thought... On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:26:36 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: probly running some servers and/or services you don't need, and MDK runs them if you installed them by default. On Thursday 10 January 2002 08:29, you wrote: I have a Redhat 6.2 system running on a 133 Mhz Pentium with 64 MB memory, and It is much faster than my LM 8.1 running on a 450 Mhz AMD K6, 256 MB memory I mean the diff is probably 10X. Does anyone have any ideas as to why the LM 8.1 would be so slow? Gerald -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 vs Redhat 6.2
On Thursday 10 January 2002 08:29, you wrote: I have a Redhat 6.2 system running on a 133 Mhz Pentium with 64 MB memory, and It is much faster than my LM 8.1 running on a 450 Mhz AMD K6, 256 MB memory I mean the diff is probably 10X. Does anyone have any ideas as to why the LM 8.1 would be so slow? Gerald On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:26:36 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: probly running some servers and/or services you don't need, and MDK runs them if you installed them by default. On Friday 11 January 2002 09:10 am, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: or the equivalent of RH6.2 is Mandrake 7.x? not sure but have read some comments passing the requirements of Mandrake 8.x as the same as those of WinXP (meaning not for relatively slow processors). just a thought... 8:42pm up 1:17, 2 users, load average: 1.59, 1.51, 1.32 57 processes: 56 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 20.9% user, 3.2% system, 0.0% nice, 75.8% idle Mem: 247480K av, 214056K used, 33424K free, 0K shrd, 15764K buff Swap: 248968K av, 0K used, 248968K free 118812K cached I just ran top and the processor is not busy. I wonder if it might be my harddrive slowing things down. Te rehat system seemed to run KDE faster than Gnome. Thanks for the input, I'll keep looking Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
