Hey all, i'm trying to install Mandrake 9 in a Pentium 200Mhz, 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HD connected to a lan The problem is that the whole installation took 4h to complete. It seemed that everything as a whole was slow, even the menu drawing (the installation was in text/expert mode). And afterwards, KDE launching speed was unusable, as any other program launch. What might be happening? Do the kernel have to be tweaked in some way? Any incompatibilities?
Thanks in advance,
Rodolfo Lima.
You need a lot more RAM or a much lighter window manager (IceWM, Fluxbox ... take your pick). There is no way you can run KDE 3.0 on 32MB of RAM - you need 128MB for even tolerable speeds, and 512MB would be necessary to give full performance. As a comparison, 32MB is barely enough to run Windows 98, and Mandrake 9.0 is not the equivalent of Win98, it's more like XP (except that it doesn't give the world access to your computer, and you don't have to sell your soul to install it).
On the bright side, processor speed is not so important in Linux. My rather old computer with a Pentium II, 266MHz CPU has been running at tolerable speed under Mandrake and KDE since I bumped up the RAM to 128MB.
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