On Friday 11 January 2002 20:09, Erylon wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2002 06:10, you wrote: > > or the equivalent of RH6.2 is Mandrake 7.x? not sure but have > > read some comments passing the requirements of Mandrake 8.x as > > the same as those of WinXP (meaning not for relatively slow > > processors). > > I've got 8.0 on a 200mhz with 128 megs of ram and it runs o.k. (no > speed demon, but very useable). It's pretty good with xfce and the > xfce file manager, but konquerer and some of the other kde apps are > slow loading. Opera is nice, but Netscape takes quite a while to > load, so my recommendation with a slower machine and the 8.x > distros is go toward minimalistic and it will o.k. > > Eye candy has a price.
Remember it's not the distro as such that sets the speed of the system, it's the kernel and, more importantly, what you're trying to get the kernel to handle. Newer versions of software packages may run faster or slower, depending what the developers are up to: generally developers try to get their programs to work faster, but on the other hand, they also put in new features, which frequently slow them down, and sometimes assume that users have fast processors and tons of RAM. If speed is an issue, as Erylon said, cut down on the eye candy: use IceWM or Blackbox as your window manager rather than KDE or GNOME, use Mozilla instead of Netscape and only use Star Office if you have time on your hands. It's also worth checking what services you're using, as it's very easy during installation to install and run daemons you don't really need, or don't need to have running all the time. If you prefer an older distribution, RH 6.0 and Mandrake 7.2 are both good (use RedHat if your CPU is older than a Pentium I), but unless your machine is a real antique, I'd wait for Mandrake 8.2. Robin -- "One ping to rule them all, one ping to bind them" - Arya Stark Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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