Hallo,
infact i m a newbie too, but i myself got a lot of question to ask
Linux mandrake dot com for help.... i dont know why all newbie questions
came to me .................
anway , next time dont email me ..........i m a nw bie .....know nuts
only.
As for your problems., me too had this experienced, no use add rams.,
infact , what i heard from those experienced user, use has to recompile the
kernel , remove unecessary unrelated programmes or lib..... hm......i dont
know whether its correct ? Just guessing anyway........
stay cool
----- Original Message -----
From: Francois Swanepoel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird & ka7-100]
> I use a PIII 500 with 64Mb of RAM. Starting up SO does take some time,
> but I can handle that.
> The problem is trying to do anything else on your computer, e.g.. use
> Netscape. Once you change applications your disk starts swapping and
> never stops.
> I use VMware and Win95 with Office97. This uses less memory and is
> 'quicker' than using Staroffice.
> Maybe I should buy some more RAM and give Staroffice another go.
>
> Cheers
> Francs
>
> "Austin L. Denyer" wrote:
> >
> > > All this about Star Office got me curious, so I timed it:
> > >
> > > System:
> > > AMD K6-3, 400
> > > Asus p5A-b
> > > RAM = 192 (64 + 128 )
> > > HDA = WD 13.6GB
> > > HDB = WD 30.7GB
> > > SWAP = 128mb
> > > OS = SUSE 6.4 - "Practically Everything" option (HDA is almost full)
> > >
> > > So, from starting to move the cursor to the KDE panel icon to Star
> > > Office fully up was: 20.3 seconds.
> > >
> > > Still, I firmly believe in one fundamental law of computing:
> > >
> > > There's no such a thing as too much hard drive space or too much RAM.
> >
> > I would give you exact times for mine, but I recently re-installed Linux
> > and have not bothered to re-install StarOffice.
> > I do remember from previous timings that from clicking on the icon to
> > being able to use it was 3 or 4 minutes. It took 60 seconds just to get
> > the splash screen...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ozz.
>
> --
> Francois Swanepoel
> AIX, HACMP and ADSM System Administrator
> Tel: +2673616961
> Fax: +267304144
>
>
