Hello everyone!
I have a friend who I'm trying to introduce to Linux. I installed
Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on his system, and everything worked. However, it is
extremely slow at networking, and swaps all the time. His machine is
connected to a Road Runner cable modem, so the internet access should be
extremely fast, but it's not. Netscape gets ~2K/second, and is "slower
than Windows." He also has Win95 installed in /dev/hda1.
It's installed on a 900MB / (ext2) partition, and has a 120MB swap
partition (hda5 and hda6, respectively).
If any of you have Linux-based systems running on 32MB, and don't feel
it's frightfully slow to use GNOME or KDE with it, please say so. If you
have any ideas as to how to speed up his machine (I've disabled apache,
bind, and other server daemons), please share them with me. He is an
intelligent person, and a very good computer user, and a programmer. He
insists he's going to delete it tomorrow, and I'd rather see him happy,
using Linux for his everyday stuff.
In a related question, does the new Helix GNOME preview use less RAM than
its predecessor? I need to know because he needs whatever is the lightest
windows-ish GUI he can get (no, fvwm is not a valid choice!).
I've also asked my local LUG, but it seems that LUGOR (LUG Of Rochester
(New York State), USA) is out on summer break.
Please help.
Sincerely,
Asheesh Laroia.
