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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

