"Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP" wrote:
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> He is using it on a Pentium II 350 with 64 megs of ram, but was surprised by
> the amount of space required by the install 1.3 or something gigs. It does
> run slowly though.
He can probably throw most of it away, but I suppose he wants gui
config.
>
> On a side but related note.
>
> I just installed RedHat 7.1 at home too on the weekend, and I have a Cyrix
> 300 with 64 Megs of Ram. I too find it very slow, lots of disk access for
> virtual memory.
> I stopped most unnecessary services. Any ideas on getting it going faster
> and more efficiently. I have KDE and gnome installed but running a browser
> like Netscape or Mozilla grinds everything to a halt.
You have just list three Gnu/Linux bloatware apps. Netscape expands to
fill the available space. KDE & Gnome positivel choke any boxen. I made
the mistake of running Netscape on Gnome on P200 recently - glacially
slow.
> One of the big reasons for using Linux or GNU/Linux is the ability to run it
> on lower spec hardware, which I've been doing for the last 3 or so years.
For X use, fvm or something.
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