I am preparing a used computer for my mother. I installed win98 SE and then Enigma. Of course, I'm rooting for Linux but I notice that when I boot Windows it flies while Gnome is quite slow. KDE seems to run faster (also the little "hourglass" animations are psychologically pleasing). Is it possible to make Gnome faster? Can it be configured to have "hourglass" icons? How would I diagnose the choke points? Or should I just stick with KDE? Although I've used Linux for years and I've used an old RH 7.1 desktop for a while, I have not tinkered with GUI much and really don't know the first thing about the internals (e.g., the distinction between X, Gnome, and Sawmill is not clear to me).
The machine has two WD drives, a 20GB primary and a 4GB slave, both on ide0 controller. I don't know how fast the drives are. The machine has 96 MB RAM and is a PII/266. I installed Linux with 250 MB of swap, a boot partition, and another big root partition--all on the big drive. The extra disk will be a shared vfat disk. Thanks! -Alan _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
