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On Thursday 04 October 2001 02:55 pm, John Rye wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 07:32:06
>
> "Orkunt Sabuncu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Last night I tried to install LM 8.1. But it is lik nightmare.
> > Firstly I have to say that my system is really old and I know LM
> > with KDE cannot live in a system with a conf. of 200MMX, 48MB Ram
> > and 96MB Swap. But i found this statement is no good for linux
> > because I am running Win2000 Pro in this system without any
> > problems and really fast. I do not want to start a debate of win
> > and linux on old machines but in the light of this fact (being able
> > to use win2000 happily) not able to use linux makes me crazy.
>
> A comparison for you..
>
> Pentium 133 32Mb Ram, 64mb Swap, LM8.0, kernel 2.2.19, ReiserFS.
> 3x Quantum 1.2gig Bigfoots (or is that BigFeet??)

Pretty anemic h/w, by yesterday's standards.  NT4 wouldn't be
happy with it, either.

> Power-on to CLI prompt (Init 3)(5 sec delay in Lilo)
>     2mins 40 sec

That startles me.  I presume that you've disabled all "server"
daemons...

> Startx to stable KDE :
>     2 mins 50

Are AA fonts disabled?  That might mitigate things.

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