"Well, you guys are probably a lot richer than me :o) my system: Pentium II 400 MHZ, 192 MB RAM.
It's less than a whole minute only if i'm doing nothing else (i.e. there's nothing else fighting with OO over the CPU..) but it's still ~45 seconds. Damian" Not really, my 1.1GHz Duron only cost me $130 to build the system: $50 for the processor, retail pack, $29 for the ASUS K7V Raid board, and $50 for the new case and power supply. I simply moved all of my components from my old P3-450 to the new Duron and reinstalled my OS's. Anywho, I've noticed that recent versions os Mandrake are a lot slower at things than windows 2000. I hold mdk7.2 as my personal benchmark for speed and stability and, IMO, no other version after that can stand up to it. I have noticed, tho, that this is not limited to just Mandrake. RedHat has the same problem, each successive version is slower. I've been trying out each new version of Mandrake and RH on a p166 w/64MB or 128MB of RAM just to see what kind of performance I can expect on low end machines. Right now, mandrake 9 is useable with Windowmaker, BlackBox, XFCE, FWM, and IceWM. KDE and Gnome are almost useless with this configuration, especially if I only have 64MB in it. Now, some of you might ask "Why is he trying to run MDK x.x on a p166?". The answer is that a lot of my customers have these old machines. I don't sell windows and won't put my personal copy on someone else's machine. If I'm working on someone's old pc and they need an OS, I tell 'em about linux. If they go for it, I set it up, show 'em what's what, and almost never hear from 'em again. I keep RH 6.2 and Mandrake 7 for 486 around for anyone with a 486 that wants linux. It's frustrating that I can't give these people the "latest, greatest" stuff 'cause it'll run too slow. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.455 / Virus Database: 255 - Release Date: 2/13/2003
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