I don't run X windows on my old hardware because it is 486 or P200 and just not enough uffda to make it worth the waiting. Todd Young wrote: > 500Mhz and 192Meg of RAM is slow???!!!! > > That's a great machine, more than probably 70% of the people on the > Internet need for what they do. Most people work on MSWord docs and > surf the web, and yet they feel the need to always have the latest and > fastest PC available. > > My primary is a 750Mhz Duron with 768Meg of RAM running Win98SE (yeah, > yeah, I know). > My secondary is a 400Mhz Intell with 384Meg of RAM running Mandrake9.1 > and it works great. Actually both PCs work great. I have no problems > with "speed" on either machine. > > I may be way off base here,(let the flames begin!) but it seems that > Redhat is following in Microsoft's footsteps by "bloating" the > so-called "basic" system, which in turn creates a slower system. At > least with SUSE you can choose a "bare-bones" install. My advice. > Reload the system and this time manually go through the applications > that are loaded and prune out some of the stuff that you never use, > maybe even consider going with Slackware or VectorLinux or Debian. > I've got a great article that I printed out that guides you through > installing a very "base" Debian system, I think it takes less than > 500Megs of disk space. I could probably scan it and send it out, or > maybe even find the URL on the printout. I never accept the "default" > application load on any operating system, Linux or Windows. > > Joe Dunsmore wrote: > >> I have a general question regarding linux and slow computers. I have an >> amd 500 mhz and 192 megs of ram minus 8 for video. I'm running >> redhat 9. I sometimes have problems running out of memory when doing >> regular stuff, >> sometimes it even seems like it has a larger memory footprint than >> windows >> 98. But here we have someone who was using linux on 64 megs of ram and >> reccomending it on 32 megs. X alone takes up about 20 megs of ram >> for me >> and gnome probably another 20. add web browser and email and we have >> about >> 40 more. are you using X when you're using linux? Am I doing something >> wrong here? > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list