[NBLUG/talk] Red Hat 8- too slow

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Sun Mar 28 16:56:01 PST 2004


Agreed!!  The man wondered why OO was so slow on his machine.  The
question was answered, he has a slow machine.  Move on.

The old streetcar saying holds true, "Speed costs money, how fast do you
want to go?"  On my machine running KDE 3.2.1 OOwriter starts in just
about 5 seconds - 3.0GHz P4 with 1G of RAM.

My first install of Slack circa 1994 ran X with fvwm on a 486/33 with 8M
of RAM.  It was responsive once it got going... but oh so painful by
today's standards.  Special thanks to Stefan Stobel and Thomas Uhl who
wrote the book - Linux Unleashing the workstation in your PC, 1994.  I
still have my notes and partition layout of that first system as part of a
504M drive.

Boy, how times change.  10 years

> On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 02:04:02PM -0800, Steve Johnson wrote:
> ok.  it's too old and slow for *me* to run X on and get any productive work
> done.  as it's been stated already, it's more correct to say that GNOME and
> KDE are a bit too much for this configuration.  it all depends on what
you want to get done with a box of this generation and how well you know
linux.
>
> if you are a new-to-linux person and expect to run linux on this as you
would for your everyday tasks and/or play with linux to find out what it
can
> do for you, i'd suggest not doing so, as your experience is going to be
less
> than stellar (as Aman as apparently found out.)
>
> i'm all for keeping older hardware usefull (i've got a p166 at home i
use to
> do nothing but burn cd's and poke around debian's inner workings on),
but at
> some point, to really squeeze performance out of an old box, you need
know what you are doing in linux, or at least expect the road to be very
bumpy and long while getting to that point.






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