At 05:40 PM 4/9/02, Derek Broughton wrote:
>Kemal R Seitveliyev wrote:
>>Well, it actually does not run very fast on my computer. Windows 2000 runs
>>at acceptable speeds.. Linux sort of
>>slows down substantially with every extra program started... I have
>
>That sounds like you don't have a swap partition, the results of "swapon 
>-s" should show something like:
>
>Filename     Type            Size    Used    Priority
>/dev/hda10   partition       248968  107692  -1
>
>If there isn't any swap space at all, or it doesn't say "partition", you 
>need to get some space on your drive to dedicate to swap.  It's just not 
>believable that a properly configured Linux system on a 300MHz processor 
>with 96MB ram will run slower than the same machine running Windows 2000.
>
>>a Toshiba Portege 7010ct with 300 mhz processor, 96 mb ram, and have what
>>I assume to be woody - it got network-installed three days ago, so it's
>
>No reason to assume it is.  See your /etc/apt/sources.list.  It contains 
>lines like:
>deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
>
>basically if the word after the URL is 'woody' or 'testing' you have woody.

cat /etc/debian_version tells you what version your running as well.


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