[NBLUG/talk] Red Hat 8- too slow

[Augie Schwer]

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Mohandas Gandhi said:
> I am a real newbie to Linux. I am running Red Hat 8 on an old computer (
> an hp pavillion w/ pentium 232, 160 MB of SDRAM,  and a really old ATI
> card). Linux is running really slow, opening Open Office.org takes
> around 5 minutes.I tried running the 'top' command.

It kind of just sounds like you have an old machine. What did 'top' say?

augie.


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