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From: "LINK WORLD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 9:06 AM
Subject: [Cooker] How to speedup Mandrake for general desktop use?
> Dear Cooker,
>
> I have now . . . 32MB Ram . . .>
> Yet the systems are slooooooow.
.
>
> I have been under the impression that linux is not as demanding on
resources as Windows, MS-Office & Visual Studio. Where
> have I gone wrong?
>
You have been listening to the Linux hype.
When run with only a command shell, Linux is very fast, even on low memory
machines. X uses a significant amount of memory as KDE and GNOME.
(This has nothing to do with Mandrake's Linux, btw. All the distros share
this "problem".)
The solutuion?
1. Add more memory to the systems, especially if you want to run StarOffice.
2. Use a lightweight replacement for X (tinyX ?) and a lightweight
replacemnent for KDE/GNOME and have a fast disk system to make swap work as
fast as possible.
Hoyt
