[NBLUG/talk] Red Hat 8- too slow

[E Frank Ball]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:49:37AM -0800, Mohandas Gandhi wrote:
} Hi
} 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.
}  
} Aman

I should also add that gnome and KDE are also both pigs on a
slow machine.  There is a wide variety of lightweight window
managers that will run briskly, but if you are used to
windows they may not seem very friendly.  My favorite is
fvwm:  http://www.fvwm.org

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com