I think someone else may have eluded to this, but having a lot of processes running in the background can slow your machine to a crawl as well. Using something like KDE System Guard can identify running processes and let you shut down or kill the ones that are hogging resources. I currently have Mandrake 8.1 running on a P166 with 94 mb of ram. While it's no "speed demon", it runs faster than it did when I had Windows 95 installed on it! However, some applications seem to hang on to resources and not let go, even after they've been closed(K-Office will do this).........sort of like some windows apps do :) At least in Linux you can actually find the offender and "kill him" without having to "reboot"! I agree with Rodd's comments about the windows managers and apps designed to run on newer machines. If you're using an old machine, forget Enlightenment and Ximian's Evolution! :) Good Window Managers for old machines are Black Box, fvwm and WindowMaker.
Sandy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ahrenstorff, Rodd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Lanny'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "RedmondLunix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 10:10 PM Subject: RE: [rl-users] Redmond linux slow? > This distro is not shipping with object-prelinked RPMs and may not be > optimized for all processors. However, most Linux distibutions aren't. > Running RPMs optimized for i686 processors on your Pentium II won't help the > situation any. So most distros don't perform the optimization process for > every included package. They can't predict what processor your using. > However, you can download prelinked and optimized RPMs from Texstar at > www.pclinuxonline.com. > > Another issue often brought up by persons new to Linux concerns the > comparison of Win98 and their new Linux distro. Often they say it is > slower. Well Windows 98 is four years old! The GUI is prehistoric by KDE > standards. With all the "eye candy" provided in the new Linux desktops a > 233Mhz computer will run a little slow. But install Windows XP and you'll > get the same results. I personally have installed Mandrake 8.1, Redhat 7.2, > Elx Linux pre1, Redmond 44, and Win2k on my main home PC (1.3Ghz AMD, 256MB > DDR RAM, ATA 100, etc..). There is little difference in speed between all > of them. I have also installed them all on my spare PC (233Mhz PII, 256MB > RAM, ATA 33, etc..) and again they run about the same speed. > > If you use older equipment you need to use "lighter" windows managers with > less "eye candy". There are many available in Linux. Unfortunately, old > hardware and "light weight" is not the future of the desktop market. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lanny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 7:59 PM > To: RedmondLunix > Subject: [rl-users] Redmond linux slow? > > > I have heard alot of people say that RedmondLinux is slow. Is this correct > and if so why? > > Lanny > > - > -- > rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/ > - > -- > rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/ > - -- rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/
