Thanks Nick, It's my Sony VAIO laptop (128mb, 400mhz, p3, 8gb)
I was wondering if there were any wizzie apps that you can run that look at your hardware and configuration then make recommendations (I know there are plenty of these for Windows). Thanks for your suggestions and recommendations. I have also been looking at some performance tuning stuff at www.faqs.org/docs/securing/gen-optim.html which seems to be useful. Cheers Don On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 12:07, Nick Rout wrote: > More RAM? > > Actually your question is pretty hard to answer, we don't know what > areas of performance you think are below par. It would also help to know > about your hardware. Therefore the following os pretty generalised. > > You should minimise the number of services operating - most of them will > not be needed on a home LAN. They all take up ram and cpu cycles. > > You could try running a less power crazed desktop - mandrake's default > is kde, I am liking XFCE4, icewm is very accessible to windows people (a > similar interface). Fluxbox is very light but more learning required. > WindowMaker is good but ditto on learning curve. > > If video performance is lacking, make sure you have the very best > drivers for your card, eg if its an nvidia go for the proprietary > nvidia drivers. > > Mandrake is compiled for the 586 architecture IIRC. You could recompile > the entire distro for your architecture [1], but it probably isn't worth > the effort. > > > > [1] I read an online article about how to do this for redhat once,was > written by a kiwi too. mandrake would be similar as it has very similar > structure and is rpm based. Basically it comes down to setting up custom > RPM compiler settings, and rebuilding from source rpms. Actually if you > wanted to take that approach gentoo probably makes it easier. > > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:06:38 +1300 > Don Gould wrote: > > > Are there any tools for improving performance? > > > > I've done a google but couldn't find much in the way of useful links. > > > > Any recommendations? > > > > Cheers Don
