On Tuesday 25 de February 2003 23:02, Rodolfo Lima wrote: > 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.
I have installed Mandrake 9 on a Pentium 233 with 32 MB RAM with no problems. _BUT_ you'll have to choose light and small software for everything. -Fluxbox, IceWM, or other lightweight window manager. (Fluxbox loads in less than 3 seconds and works with no problems.) -Sylpheed for e-mail and news (Same. Loads in 2 seconds.) - Phoenix (or Opera) for the web. (About 5 seconds loading time for Opera, which is also more responsive than Phoenix) - Gaim for IM (Same as all. 2 to 3 secs.) -AbiWord and GNUmeric for text and spreadsheets. (about 5 to 10 seconds loading time, pretty responsive.) -Xmms for audio and MPlayer for video (as usual) (these two are just grrrreat. MPlayer's loading time can be near-zero in certain circumstances.) With those, i had a really usable machine and it was actually a much better performer than Windows, as it culd have a lot of webpages open in Opera, Xmms playing some MP3s, Sylpheed open, and Gaim, all at the same time. On Windows 98, even trying to give it that much load would bring it to it's knees. Unfortunately the process which would take up the most RAM is the one you cannot replace -- the X server. (resident, taking up 12MB constantly) Damian
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