I have now set up two Linux boxes; a server and a desktop on identical
Pentium 166s with 32 MB of ram.
I was very impressed with just about everything about the server: Apache,
database, ssh, etc... I was less impressed with the desktop.
I read Bob Spark's paper on Linux in government and got excited when he
talked about using old 386s and 486s. I must be doing something wrong as
the GUI on my P166 is very slow.
I loaded a standard Red Hat 6.2 desktop installation. I then made sure that
not needed services were not running. I downloaded and installed Star
Office. The problem is that it is very slow. It takes almost a minute for
Star Office to come up. This is a lot slower than when this machine had
windows 98 on it with MS Office.
I have two questions:
Am I expecting too much?
If I'm not expecting too much, what can I do to speed up this install?
Tom Laurie
NH Office of Emergency Management
Systems Manager
603 223-3617
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