-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:10:13 +0530 Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 23/03/04 07:07 +0100, Diwakar Ranganathan wrote: > > I've a serious problem with Red Hat which nobody seems > > to have. > > > > My Celeron-467-Mhz-with-128-MB-RAM machine is too slow > Add more RAM? > This doesn't sound to be an appropriate answer. 128mb of RAM is normally okay for a Desktop machine. Doesn't Microsoft run absolutely superb on the same hardware configuration ? This is, where Microsoft still beats GNU/Linux on the desktop front. I too feel there to be some performance issues with the RedHat shipped GUI. One option would be to use "prelink" or a better option would be to switch to Debian :-) I run with Debian SID on my PII 400mhz with 64mb or RAM fine. As DB said, go with a lighter Window Manager. IceWM would be my choice. > > with Red Hat 8 and Fedora Core-1 (including PCQLinux > > 2004). This even after I reduced the graphics when I > > first logged into the latest KDE (PCQLinux 2004). PCQ > > Linux 7.1 was super fast on my machine. Mandrake 7.2, > > 8.2 and 9.1 were also fast. > So change your desktop environment from KDE or Gnome to something less > bloated. IceWM, XFCE, Wmaker, all work very well. > > Devdas Bhagat > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT (www.researchut.com) Happy GNU/Linux user since 1998 - ------ FORTUNE ! Optimization hinders evolution. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYGfP4Rhi6gTxMLwRAmXxAJ9etM3jPd1dNdr/g88txx0GRGQcTwCeJMeR KdMbkORbtH72g7fP9goK5ec= =HBHJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
