On Thursday 17 July 2003 09:54, Rob Hudson wrote: > How can I make the Gnome desktop run a little faster on my > aging Pentium 233 laptop? Or would KDE run any better?
I've found KDE to be even slower than GNOME. The last time I saw either running with any decent speed on a 233 was in the days of RedHat 6.2. Sometimes you can get a small speed improvement by recompiling your kernel but I doubt that doing so will make enough difference to matter on a 233 any more. I think your choices are pretty much narrowed down to choosing a differnent window manager -- but hey, that's the beauty of Linux, right? You're not locked in to just one... Recently I've been using IceWM in my LTSP installs if the server is a little underpowered. It's fast, light, and still runs GNOME and KDE programs. Another old favorite of mine is XFCE. Try them, you'll like them! Ken _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
