I installed red hat 7.3 on laptop previously running WinXP and I must admit i am dissapointed on red hat's performance. Installtion was easy and went well, but using this OS is not effective.. Booting takes minutes to login screen, and starting from there to desktop takes minutes again. Applications start ages (even light and small ones) and the whole machine is like frozen.
I know the laptop isn't a real powerhouse (800 pIII, 128 MB ram) but still I expected a bit more after so much talk how linuxes ase these days. This laptop workes fine with Win2000 and WinXP... And I didn't install all the packages, only the "laptop-installation" the wizard suggested, with few additional packages and KDE. I have 500MB swap... Is gnome perhaps lighter than KDE. Does anyone have any idead how to speed-up this machine or hints how to improve performance. P_trig _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
