[TriLUG] mandrake performance?

[Tanner Lovelace]

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Jim Priest wrote:
| Installed Mandrake 9.1 last night on my box - blew away Win2000. It
was time for a re-install anyway so I figure I'd give Mandrake a try
after inquiring on here (quite a while ago) about friendly distros.
|
| It's an older box - 850mhz, Celeron PIII - 256mb RAM.  I did just a
basic install - no web, firewall, etc.  Just Gnome, KDE and the basic
office/web apps.  It seems REALLY slow opening up something like Galeon
or Mozilla takes 10-15 seconds, sometimes longer - and I'm wondering
whats the best thing to throw at it to speed it up?  I'm mostly used
Linux on the server end and haven't messed much with it on the desktop
so I'm not sure whats the best thing to do in order to improve
performance?  Ram? Swap space?
|
| If I can speed it up I think I could leave it on there and move to
Linux at home - I'm really impressed with the progress of Gnome/KDE!
|
| Thanks,
| jim

Hi Jim,

It sounds like something's wonky with your computer.  I've run
Mandrake on machines with much less horsepower and never seen
what you're describing.  Unfortuantely, I'm not sure where
to point you for solutions.. :-(

Cheers,
Tanner
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