Peter Rundle wrote: > On another point, running X and netscape it runs like a dog! The Mandrake > install (with gnome-sawmill) was unusable. I tried fvwm2 but it didn't seem > to make much difference. Redhat seemed slightly better and surprisingly I > stuck E 0.16 on and it seems to be the best (though still woeful, it's > swapping like crazy and I've shutdown every service I can think of). The fvwm2 should be *much* faster than E or Sawmill. I have a 33MHz, 32MB RAM 486 at home which runs fvwm or fvwm2 at quite OK speed. That sort of machine would not be useful running E. Use fvwm with a plain background and 256 colour icons. I tend to go for the fvwm with Motif appearance and eschew the fvwm95 crap. If its not faster than E ie if its not usable then something else is wrong. Whats the swap space? > > So apart from adding more Ram, has anyone got any useful URL's etc that > help reduce the RAM requirements. A 486 is too slow for Netscape 4.7 so grab Netscape 2.0 from the depths of the Netscape archives. You'll prob have to hunt for it on ftp.netscape.com or at aarnet.edu.au/pub/netscape. Alternatively try Opera (www.operasoft.com). Renders the screen much faster than Netscape 4.7 but don't know how it compares to 2.0 Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/ Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
