> I was just hoping to speed up my machine a bit, but maybe I should > change from Fedora Core 3 to something lighter.
If you want to speed your machine up a bit without reinstalling your OS, the top few suggestions I would make are: 1) If you have a software-only TV card, get a PVR-X50 2) If you don't have a decent graphics card, spend $70 and get a GeForce FX5200 3) Disable GNOME/KDE and use a lightweight windowmanager like fluxbox, fvwm, etc. 4) Disable any non-essential services in your startup scripts 5) Close any ports that don't need to be open in your inetd.conf/xinetd.conf 6) Check system stats with 'cat /proc/meminfo', sar, iostat, vmstat - react accordingly. If you're RAM limited, add ram. If you're spending lots of system time waiting for your disk, get a faster disk and/or balance disk I/O across multiple spindles 7) ensure that your IDE drives are using dma (google for dma linux hdparm) 8) use a simple theme in MythTV and disable cpu-intensive options like transparency and other OSD options. -Ross
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