Try Opera under Linux. It flies and doesn't crash the machine the way IE does. Also, your swap is too small (windows dynamically manages swap, so it is probably using 60-100 MB of swap, try system monitor to see). If you want to run X on that slow a machine, try a smaller window manager, like fwm, etc. KDE is designed for faster machines. I don't run it on a machine slower than 200 MHz. Anything slower, I run Linux without X and use it for a server. I had a 486-100 under samba as my PDC until 2 months ago, it would out perform a PII-233 with 4 times the RAM under NT. Thanks, James Spinti jspinti at dartdist.com 952-368-3278 x396 fax 952-368-3255 | |-----Original Message----- |From: Mark Browne [mailto:markbrowne at mn.mediaone.net] |Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:37 PM |To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org |Subject: [TCLUG] Linux vrs Windows speed - What gives? | | |I am still geting used to Mandrake 8.0. |My concern is that with a dual boot system Windows seems faster than Linux |in KDE. |Example: Explorer opening a web page 3x faster compared to KDE or netscape |on same system. |Is there some sort of speed tuning I should do? |I am testing Linux primarily with a 133 MHz P1 with 64 mb with |20mb of swap. |Don't tell me to get a faster box - I have one. |WIndows 98 runs OK with this hardware. | |I have tried several other distributions with much the same results. |I fear that the claims of Linux speed in relation to Windoze may be just |hype. | |Mark Browne