I'm just going from my limited experience... I've had RH on a PII-200 w/ 128MB and w/ 256MB, a PII-233 w/ 256 MB RAM, and an AMD K something or other 300. Running an X environment on any of the above was not much fun. Given those setups, I found it less of a hassle to run in the shell. I spent far more time being productive than "waiting" for X apps to respond. KDE and Gnome would "run" but they didn't respond well. This all could've been my setup at the time, who knows... I do know that any windowing environment is going to be resource intensive.
I now run on a PIII-450 with 512 MB RAM, a Voodoo 3D, a 30GB Maxtor 7200, and a 4GB Quantum Bigfoot. No complaints here! I'm surprised Win2k seemed to perform better given that same setup :) Win95, I can understand since it does not have as much of the overhead. Thanks, Al -----Original Message----- From: Mike Burger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 11:37 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: newbie question: how to speed up linux The problem with this answer is that the guy has 192MB of RAM, and 2 hard drives. I can't vouch for his disk space availability, but 192MB should still be plenty of RAM in which to run KDE. On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Calbazana, Al wrote: > I assume you are booting straight to some X environment (KDE, Gnome, and > Enlightenment). IMO, using a GUI with such low resources is asking for it. > If you are going to use a machine like that, consider booting straight to > command line :) Besides, that's the best way to learn! > > Thanks, > > Alejandro > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anders Thoresson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 8:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: newbie question: how to speed up linux > > I've just taken my first stumbling steps down on the Linux road, > installing Redhat 7.3. Many things have impressed me so far, but the > over all speed of my system is a big dissappointment. Compared to when I > run Windows 95 and Windows 2000 on the same computer, almost everything > seems to take for ever. > > Clicking "New Message" in Evolution until the new message turns up > takes a couple of seconds. Starting OpenOffice 1.0 Writer somewhere > between 30 seconds and a minute. Recieving 500 mails or so from my ISP > somewhere between 15 och 30 minutes. > > My computer is a PII-233, ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC for video, 192 MB RAM > and 2 ATA33 hard drives. > > What's the bottleneck? Could anything besides plugging in more RAM be > done to boost the performance? > > Best regards, > > Anders > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
