[TriLUG] Mandrake 9.1

[Louis Clotman]

> Has anyone else experienced Mandrake 9.1 having VERY slow program
> initializations? It seems to take 15-30 seconds for Mozilla to start up.
> 3-5
> seconds to open a shell and when KDE first starts up it could take up to 1
> minute to finish. I am running a AMD 1700 with DDR and  ATA133 hard
> drives. I
> don't think it's my hardware. Once the programs are up there seems to be
> no
> latency.
>
> Nick
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Nick,

I had the EXACT same problem with Mandrake 9.1 on my AMD 2000+.  Galeon
would take 5 seconds to open.  Nautilus would take 10 sec to open my home
directory.  I'm no Mandrake guru, but I don't think it's your hardware. 
This Google post helped me out:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=mandrake+9.1+slow+hostname&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=3e873684.0%40news1.mweb.co.za&rnum=1

Hope this helps,
Louis