-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a | | little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor | | safety." | | Ben Franklin | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE7vO1kjTz5dS9Us5wRAixNAJj53DSU6tCHGD0GJqXHaylHmm8JAJsHi8Q9 qMxC7S7LcLdindCtOTFB3w== =hADC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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