Dave, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The machine had an AMD 2400+ processor with 128 Mb DDR RAM...absolutely no > reason for it to be running that slowly, other than Linspire's code bloat.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > so abysmally that my friend has insisted that I install XP for her. I'm > doing this, as well as adding a RAM upgrade. Before installing XP, why not try a different version of Linux, or at least a re-tuned version of Linspire. In fact, one thing that MIGHT make the Linux system really slow is whether or not DMA has been turned off for the main disk drives. I had a Linux system that was slow, and finally I realized that the DMA had been turned off for the hard drives (sometimes necessary for CD-ROMs), which made the system work really SLOW. OR it could be that (to be "easy" for the former Windows users) that they did something like mounting the file systems synchronous, or using log-based file systems on a mostly read-only file system. Yes, the people who package the system should have done this, but with your explanation of their attitudes, I would not be surprised. I also am aware that the pre-V2.0 versions of Open Office (Alpha and Beta versions) were REALLY slow, and right before V2.0 came out the speed of Open Office improved DRAMATICALLY. It is possible that the version of OO on Linspire was one of these pre-release versions. In any case, try pulling down a version of Fedora or SuSE 10.0 and putting that on the machine, making sure DMA is turned on for the hard drives after installation. Warmest regards, maddog -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
