Hi,
I have a Pentium 200 with 64M of ram, RedHat6.0 and KDE 1.1.1.
Everything is running slower than Win95.
The time from power-on to desktop is shorter in Win95.
Programmes like StarOffice, Netscape, Wordperfect8 are loading in longer
time in Linux. It looks like in Linux all the program is loaded from HDD
in the memory and in Win95 are loaded only the pieces you use (I can
hear the noise made by the HDD).
I monitorized my memory and it is enough, a very little amount of swap
is used.
When I installed RedHat I chosed "everything".
By slower than Win95 I mean only twice slower.
I tried also Slackware and Mandrake.
Maybe I should change the distribution ? (it was something about
Turbolinux on the list)
Maybe KDE is the problem ? Don't advice me to give up KDE. I like nice
shows (I have beautyfull backgrounds about 1.5M , mountain landscapes,
sunsets , I change them according to the season). I noticed that all KDE
applications are very fast (kmail, kppp), but everything alien is slow.
Maybe the way linux is configured must be changed ?
Any suggestion is wellcomed.
Thank you all,
Cris
