--- Petri Somerkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
I am probably a bit biased but I was amazed how slow kde3 was - yes gnome is considerably quicker (this is on a K6/2 500 128MB) Even better get gnome2 snapshots - woooh. My PC takes about 90-120 seconds to X (including logging in) > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
