On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:53:14PM +0530, K. Ghosh wrote: > My box - Pentium-I, 166MHz, 32MB RAM. > My distro - Debian Woody 3r0. > Desktop - XFce > Office - StarOffice 5.2 (start/stop is slow) > Browser - Galeon / Dillo > Mailer - Sylpheed
Noticed that OpenOffice is damn slow even on a high-end machine ... If I am running, say Gnumeric or Evolution, should that cause more load on the system? I think GNOME applications will start other services like CORBA server and so on ... same for KDE? But that will be better off than OpenOffice or StarOffice, I think. > I have arrived at this combination after lot of trial and error with > other distros. The latest RH7.3 onwards and MDK9, do not install on P-I > machines. RHL 7.3 does install on a Pentium ... but damn difficult to use. I logged in with KDE as desktop, and the defaults are so heavy, the delays were unbearable. I wasn't able to complete the wizard that starts for the first login ... had to reset the machine after a series of frustrating delays and incorrectly rendered windows. But does that necessarily mean that GNOME2 or KDE3 are /bad/ for a Pentium machine? Any pointers on how to prune them? Sameer. -- MTech Student, Reconfigurable Computing Lab, KReSIT, IIT-Bombay. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive ability is prominent in your make-up. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
