On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:51:02AM -0500, Polar Humenn wrote: > > I updated from Slackware, because updating it was a pain. But now that I > have this RedHat 8.0 thing installed, my system is slower than a > two-legged tortoise. I've got a dual-pentium 800Mz with 512MB RAM. The KDE > used to fly under Slack. Now, what's happened?
As somebody else pointed out, your desktop isn't recognizing all of your memory and instead is swapping. This will make it suck... > I also installed RH 8.0 on my Laptop, and now I'm ready to throw the thing > away. It's a DELL Inspiron 7000 350Mx 128MB RAM, and used to be my best You don't meet the recommended requirements for your laptop. For X, the *minimum* is 128MB with 192MB recommended. Expect it to crawl unless you want to at least lighten up your windowing system. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
