Tonton wrote: >Have you create a swap partition for Linux? if not, create it now. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Greetings: >> >>I recently installed Mandrake 8.1 on my son's machine which consists of a >>120Mhz processor and 84meg of ram. It now operates deadly slow. My >>understanding has been that one advantage of linux is that it runs fine on >>older equipment ; that it doesn't require the horsepower, so to speak, that >>other OS's like windows does. >> >>Prior to installing Linux on my son's machine he was running windows 95. That >>moved right along. He likes linux but it is dreadfully slow. >> >>I am running a celeron @ 700Mhz with 512 Meg of ram. The speed is much better >>but still slower than windows ME, which I migrated from. >> >>Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Since I began this journey, I can't >>seem to get away from my computer. Though the learning is slow, I am learning >>and enjoying experimenting. On the other hand I have 3 boys in school, 3 >>machines networked together, and I need a stable system with reasonable speed. >> >>Any comments would be helpful. Tnx >> >>Jeff - K1LE - SECT >> > >__________________________________ >www.edsamail.com > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Try installing kernel 2.2 rather than 2.4 Early kernels 2.4 had a virtual memory scheme that was not reasonable for older machines and did make them slow.
Also, if you want a fast linux, use a window anager like blackbox or xfce instead of KDE or GNOME which have both become cluttered with features that are best described as engineer's toys. With those changes you should be equal in speed to Win95, but don't expect to be faster because the capabilities of even a light linux far exceed win95. Other options are say Peanut 9.0 or later, with Enlightenment as the WM. The constane demand for "features" by most of the customers of Mandrake so that they can run the biggest and best and latest has taken this distro away from the simple distros of the past. Consider that Windows XP is on one CD and doesn't use all of it and Mandrake 8.1 full download edition fills three CDs and still leaves off some things you have to find in /contribs. Civileme
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