On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> Mine is definitely way slower than Windows. When dragging my mouse around
> the screen it appears to periodically get caught on some virtual "rug", it
> takes 3 or 4 seconds to iconify and restore a window, it takes about 30
> seconds to get the desktop properties. I just don't get it, it's extremely
> frustrating...
do u mind if i ask u where u work :)
>
> BeOS seems to run quite nicely tho...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dickman, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 12:25 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Performance...
>
>
> IMO, Your system no doubt seems slower since you have such a beast at work.
> I have a 21" monitor here, when I go home to my paltry 17" it feels like
> I'm looking at a 15"... ;-)
>
> My Celeron 400i w/ 64MB RAM seems to run MDK7.2 and KDE2 just fine...
> Faster than Windows - and that's what's really important to me.
>
> -JD-
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:09 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Performance...
>
>
> Just FYI,
>
> I'm running 7.2 KDE on a PII400/288MB and it's a slow as crap!
> Especially while running with a terminal window, Netscape, Pan, and XMMS.
>
> You might be able to run linux the OS on a 486 with 16MB of ram, but my
> impression is if you want to run a linux "desktop" system, you need some
> fairly decent machinery.
>
> I have a PIII800/256MB at work running the same installation as I do at
> home, and it's very spunky. But unfortunately I can't afford such an
> environment...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent Primavera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 11:50 AM
> To: Newbie List; Expert List
> Subject: [newbie] Performance...
>
>
> Hello,
> I am running v7.2 on a 433 Mhz Celeron with 192 MB of RAM which I
> recently
> upgraded from 64 MB. There is an increase in performance, but not major.
> It
> is recognizing the RAM. Is there any configuring that I can do to increase
> performance?
>
> Thank You,
> Vincent A. Primavera
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