Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-10-09 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 04:50:08 +0200, Don Jackson wrote: > I have installed sarge with kernel 2.4.26 on it -- no problem. Actually, > everything works fine on it, with KDE and Kmail and Mozilla-Firefox as my > choices (since that's what I'm using myself). The problem is that with only > a 166 MH

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine (conclusion)

2004-10-09 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:20:07 +0200, Don Jackson wrote: > I'm sure I could make more speedup by going to different wm, but > could not justify the time needed for my learning curve. Just > changing to S-C and Dillo seemed good enough for her, as unlike me, > she has never been exposed to faster com

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine (conclusion)

2004-10-08 Thread Silvan
> Thanks all for the comments and suggestions. I'm sure my "client" thanks > you too. Linux, Debian, and all the others who contributed to open source > software have given this lady her "window to the world" in her meager > mobile home in the backwoods environment. Kind of nice timing coming b

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine (conclusion)

2004-10-08 Thread Don Jackson
On Sunday 26 September 2004 09:11 am, Don Jackson wrote: > On Saturday 25 September 2004 09:45 pm, Don Jackson wrote: > > I am seeking the advice of some of you who may have been down this path > > before. Situation: I am working on an older 166 MHz Pentium-S machine > > with 96 MB RAM, two 2.5GB

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-29 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/2004 01:02 PM, Carl Fink wrote: > If you're going to use GNOME products like Firefox, don't mix them with KDE > products. You end up needing BOTH sets of libraries, meaning INCREDIBLE > amounts of swapping. Firefox is not a GNOME App, its a

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-26 Thread Rob Bochan
On Saturday 25 September 2004 10:45 pm, Don Jackson wrote: > I am seeking the advice of some of you who may have been down this path > before. Situation: I am working on an older 166 MHz Pentium-S machine with > 96 MB RAM, two 2.5GB hard drives, for a neighbor (rather poor) here in the > Arkansas

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-26 Thread Tim Connors
Don Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:45:10 -0500: > I have installed sarge with kernel 2.4.26 on it -- no problem. Actually, > everything works fine on it, with KDE and Kmail and Mozilla-Firefox as my > choices (since that's what I'm using myself). The problem is that wit

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-26 Thread Don Jackson
On Saturday 25 September 2004 09:45 pm, Don Jackson wrote: > I am seeking the advice of some of you who may have been down this path > before. Situation: I am working on an older 166 MHz Pentium-S machine with > 96 MB RAM, two 2.5GB hard drives, for a neighbor (rather poor) here in the > Arkansas

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-26 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
Hello Don, Maybe another suggestion (since you have 2 disks): install so that the most often used resources will be on one hard disk, and the swap on the other. ? But I'm wondering, will this really improve the speed of the OS ? Advanced users, please comment. Cheers, Sylvain. -- wxWidgets c

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-26 Thread Olav Lavell
Op zo 26-09-2004, om 04:45 schreef Don Jackson: > I feel she needs to have a GUI interface for her email, etc. since that is > what she is used to. She is not very computer literate and I need to make it > as easy as possible for her to operate (she's had some brain damage from an > accident s

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-25 Thread Silvan
> decided to rebuild this older computer for her and put Debian GNU/Linux > Sarge on it, figuring it might be less work for me in "service calls" ;-) It'll probably work too. My boss's daughter has only called me twice in monnths. Both times because something went wrong (probably user erro

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-25 Thread Carl Fink
Second Jacob's recommendation to swap icewm in for KDE. I disagree with him that you can still run KDE apps -- it'll work, but you end up loading all the QT and KDE libraries, meaning swapping ... meaning slowness. If you're going to use GNOME products like Firefox, don't mix them with KDE produc

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-25 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:45:10 -0500 Don Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am seeking the advice of some of you who may have been down this > path before. Situation: I am working on an older 166 MHz Pentium-S > machine with 96 MB RAM, two 2.5GB hard drives, for a neighbor (rather > poor) here

Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-25 Thread Don Jackson
I am seeking the advice of some of you who may have been down this path before. Situation: I am working on an older 166 MHz Pentium-S machine with 96 MB RAM, two 2.5GB hard drives, for a neighbor (rather poor) here in the Arkansas Ozarks. She will be using it mainly for Email, web surfing, and