Bret says
>I've got a 266mmx 32 meg mem laptop that runs Madrake 6 with KDE just fine.
It does swap a fair amount when I have Netscape going, but it's a great
machine as is.<
Thanks - the grinding was probably the swapfile. As I'm normally running
98 -2nd Edition with 96 meg of ram I was getting
Well, he DID say he was running KDE. :-) Besides which, he said he'd had
some "fun" setting up KDE, so to my way of thinking, he's not going to take
a suggestion to switch window managers very well. ;-)
John
Don't worry - this old dog likes learning new tricks. As I said - the only
instr
Thanks for the info Steve. On my initial load I only seem to have KDE so
will go back to start and add some memory and reload with some of the
extras.
John the Nadger
Many thanks for reply to my enquiry about amount of ram. I have 96 meg on my
main machine with AMD 350 but am being careful as am in strange territory.
Will put some extra ram in back-up machine and try again.
I've noticed a few people slagging off Linux since I subscribed to this
group. In Engl
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> Well, he DID say he was running KDE. :-) Besides which, he said he'd had
> some "fun" setting up KDE, so to my way of thinking, he's not going to take
> a suggestion to switch window managers very well. ;-)
Probably true. It just struck me that Linux is always mentioned
I've got a 266mmx 32 meg mem laptop that runs Madrake 6 with KDE just fine. It
does swap a fair amount when I have Netscape going, but it's a great machine as
is.
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> No Linux will run just fine in 32 megs. I've got 32 mb on my machine at
> work. It's a bit slugg
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6
> John Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > No Linux will run just fine in 32 megs. I've got 32 mb on my machine
at
> > work. It's a bit sluggish sometimes, but
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> No Linux will run just fine in 32 megs. I've got 32 mb on my machine at
> work. It's a bit sluggish sometimes, but it works pretty well. Having played
> around with my new (new to me...used parts machine ) dual-PPro 200 with
> 198 MB RAM, I can tell THAT machine is goi
Hi eveyone.
I just picked up a copy of Mandrake 6 on CD Rom on front of magazine whilst
I was on holiday in France ( I live in England).
Managed, eventually, to install it on my back-up computer - the only
instructions I had were in French.
I'm 64 and have only been computing for about 7 years
