On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote: > 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? Mostly yes...
> 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? The most important item is RAM. 32Mb hardly suffices for X itself let alone X Applications. Adding more RAM will ease the system's dependence on virtual memory (assuming there is enough of it) and speed things up a little. KDE3 has some settings that can be turned off the speed things up. Running KDE3 for the first time (no .kde* files/directories in your $HOME) brings up a wizard that can be used to turn processor intensive eye-candy off. FWIW, I have a P-166 with 64Mb of RAM running Slackware 8.0 and it runs well enough to not bother me. -Naren ------------------------------------------------------- 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
