On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 19:31, Joe Dunsmore wrote: > > 500Mhz and 192Meg of RAM is slow???!!!! > > It's not slow, but sometimes I run out of memory. As time goes on, > this happens less frequently however. > > > 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. > > you have quite a bit more memory than I do. > > > 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 > > but wouldn't that just take up room on my hard drive, not my memory? > > > 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. > > I plan on trying out a lot of different distros, but most of my memory > is taken up by X and gnome, how's redhat actually come into play here? > Could it be that gtk takes up more space than related windows libraries > and that when I use mozilla, this results in stuff in memory not doing > anything? I'll repeat that actually right now, my system isn't going > into virtual memory but when I was first using it, that would happen > constantly, even when using the same apps. > Im running Mandrake 9.2 with a gig of pc2100 on a xp2100 cpu, seems to me that linux uses alot more memory than my win2k install, still plenty left though, havent gone under 500mb free yet > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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