Doc, I had a similar problem last year, but with Ubuntu rather than FC. Booting took more than 10 mins. Launching a program takes at least a minute, but is fast when already running.
I traced the problem to an apparent conflict between the Kernel and the BIOS setting for the AGP Aperture. The problem was that when the AGP Aperture is set to be higher than the allocate Video RAM for the builtin video chip (e.g. VRAM = 8KB and Aperture = 32MB), things start up slow. When the aperture is of the same value of the video ram, or lower, things are fast. I reported this to the Ubuntu bug tracker. No response yet. HTH. --- mike t.1 ----- Original Message ---- From: Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [plug] FedoraCore6 vs Ubuntu6.06LTS on Dell Inspiron6000 laptop [...] My problem was, for some reason probably related to wrong choice of install options, FC6 on my Dell became so unbearable slow. I click on the terminal icon in the task bar, and it takes the laptop too much time to open up the terminal. I choose any application, and that application loads very slowly. However, once the window is open, the application runs with normal speed. It is the initial program response times that take too long. [...]
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