Randy Kramer wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Amish K. Munshi wrote:Thanks a lot but I guess I live a very long way away. I am in Mumbai,
India. I guess you might have heard about this city somwhere atleast.
Not until now. Someday I'll enquire at the post office and see how much
it would cost to send some disks there -- I'm curious.
Thanks a lot for all this help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Also does most of the later version of Linux simiarly slow. I am only
keen on changing from RedHat 7.1 since it is slow. It takes more than 40
sec. to start any application on it.
In general, speed and memory usage have been two of my biggest problems
with Linux compared to Windows (95, which is basically the version I am
using (I've installed Win 98 for a few others, and used it for about a
year on a laptop). I think (!) speed has generally decreased and memory
use has increased from Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1 given the same hardware.
Mandrake 8.1 is installed on a machine with 256 MB of RAM and is fairly
fast until it starts using swap.
I do some tricks in Mandrake 7.2 to speed things up. (Haven't used 8.1
enough to decide if I need to use the same tricks.) One trick is to
keep several browser windows open, and not "open link in new window" (or
whatever) -- instead, paste the link into an existing open browser
window -- it avoids the overhead of opening a new window.
I usually have two bowsers open so I just switch between them.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Even the Netscape 4.75 with it takes
more than a minute to start. But on Caldera 2.4 the speed is very fast.
Netscape browser takes less than 10 sec. to start.
Out of curiosity, are you comparing performance with the same versions
of software? (Is it Netscape *4.75* on both Red Hat 7.2 and Caldera
2.4?)
On Red Hat 7.1 I have uses 4.77 and mostly Caldera has 4.75. I do not have the Cd with me right now else I would have got you the exact version.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">I wasn't able to start
RedHat 7.0 on my comp. I am planning to buy the 2 Cd pack from Mandrake but
I want to know if it will work (Seems to be a big problem with Linux) I wish
that while buying my Hardware I knew that Windows was so impossible to use.
I would have made sure that I got a good components that are most
compactible with Linux.
You might post a list of your hardware here, perhaps others will comment
on compatibility. ("Officially", what you should do is check the
various hardware compatibility lists.)
About my hardware I have a AMD K6-2 500 Mhz.
160 MB of RAM (32+128)
Dlink 56.6 Kbps internal modem (kernel >= 2.4 only supported)
SIS 530 motherboard with the sis 620 graphics card.
Basic keyboard from a local company (Microtek).
And a Logitech mouse.
And the most leftout Printer Lexmark 1100 inkjet. (I did not find the support for it anywhere).
Acer CDRom 50x.
Most of the hardware should be Linux compactible exacpt the problem of Modem and the Printer.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">I have never tried upgrading the Kernel it wasn't part of my ability. I have read the documentation but when I tried to install the new kernel on Red Hat 7.0 it had some dependencies problems.Most are still compactible except the most common
problem of the modem, for some reason the Dlink support have created the
drivers only for the 2.4 kernel.
That probably leaves Mandrake 7.2 "out of the box" out of the running,
although I'm sure you could update to a 2.4 kernel. (There might even
be one included -- I run the 2.2.17-21mdk kernel with 7.2 -- never tried
anything else.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Also the speed problem is more in KDE 2.0 mainly the GNOME is fast
enough. but it doesn't have a good email client. I liked the KDE email
client a lot and found it to be the best of all after Outlook Express.
You can run kmail under GNome (IIUC -- I've never tried it). I've heard
from several people that Sylpheed (sp?) is a good email client. (I
continue to use Windows for most email and web browsing, I run a local
TWiki on Linux and intend it as my experimentation / learning box.
I tried running the Kmail under GNOME but it would's show me any mails.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">I
tried this software called cscmail but couldn't manage to install it.
I also tried to use Ximian but it has some problems with the perl
installation.
Thanks a lot for your support.
You're welcome! Good luck!
Randy KramerThanks.
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