I have a Dell Latitude 233 MHz laptop which I run RH 7.3 and KDE. It's not fast but I use it as a lot when I don't want to sit in front of my workstation, especially as I have wireless and can be anywhere in the house.
I have two similar machines, I installed windows on the other and it practically stopped it was so slow. I think you expect too much from such a slow machine. If you don't run a gui, for instance as a server, you can expect some reasonable work out of it, but as a desktop, it's a bit too weak for real work. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mike Burger Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 8:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie question: how to speed up linux I have a similarly configured machine, with the exception of hte RAM...my PII 266 only has 64MB, and I often note a slowness in KDE, but I assume it to be a lack of RAM, as I often note the system swapping. Check "free" to make sure your system is recognizing the full complement of memory in the box. On 11 Aug 2002, Anders Thoresson wrote: > I've just taken my first stumbling steps down on the Linux road, > installing Redhat 7.3. Many things have impressed me so far, but the > over all speed of my system is a big dissappointment. Compared to when I > run Windows 95 and Windows 2000 on the same computer, almost everything > seems to take for ever. > > Clicking "New Message" in Evolution until the new message turns up > takes a couple of seconds. Starting OpenOffice 1.0 Writer somewhere > between 30 seconds and a minute. Recieving 500 mails or so from my ISP > somewhere between 15 och 30 minutes. > > My computer is a PII-233, ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC for video, 192 MB RAM > and 2 ATA33 hard drives. > > What's the bottleneck? Could anything besides plugging in more RAM be > done to boost the performance? > > Best regards, > > Anders > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
