On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:29:03 -0800 Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm sending this back to the list to keep it online. Middle stuff > chopped out... > > ----- Forwarded message from Bob Hynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Delivery-date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:30:10 -0800 > From: Bob Hynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: system requirements for debian > > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > >On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:57:55PM +0000, Bob Hynes wrote: > > > > > >>I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > >>slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > ... > > >You say nothing about any of this, so you won't likely get a lot of > >specific help. > > > >Not that it matters really, but do you actually run Windoze on the > >machine, or is that statement less a measured fact than conjecture? My > >work box in Windoze land _should_ be faster than my old Athlon at home, > >but the home machine blows away the work machine. > > > > > >Kenward > > > > > I have a Pentium II 500Mhz Celeron Dell G1. I'm using the basic box, no > additional hardware, just the integrated graphics card. I did have > Windows on this machine before and it did run faster. I'm coming from a > Windows world personally, so just to start understanding Linux, I'm > starting with using KDE. I've used Gnome also, but I'm sticking with KDE > (Version 5:45) for awhile. Latest KDE is 3.5 and it's not in testing. That would be something like 3.4... > I'm trying to get away from using Windows at my house if possible. But > my main complaint is that pretty much every application in this > distribution (Debian 10 -- Kernel is 2.6.12-10) starts slowly. sarge is 3.1 I don't know what number etch will have when released... > Especially Mozilla Firefox. Konqueror starts faster, but is still not > the greatest. Abiword starts so slow that I might as well walk over to > my other computer (Windows) and start MS Office. > > I would love to figure this out, I really like Debian and I'd like to > try other distros as well. So far I've run Debian and Fedora. I think > Fedora was actually slower than Debian. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be > _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, > because passing civilization along from one generation to the next > ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone > could have. - Lee Iacocca Maybe a post of the output of dmesg will help us spot any problems. Do this from a root console: dmesg > messages.txt (this will create a text file 'messages.txt' in the current directory) Now copy-paste the contents into your next post Andrei P.S. I had mpeg4 movies (sometimes called divx) running smoothly on a PII-333 MHz. Windoze can only dream of this. -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
