Hi, I'm new to the TCLUG list. I'm a M$ Network admin, who's wanting to expand my knowledge back into the *nix world. I've worked with AIX, IRIX and FreeBSD in the past, but only breifly. So now I going to dive into the Linux world. Since I'm doing this to expand my business knowledge as well as personal, I've decided to use Red Hat 9. (no flames plz) I have a Dell C600 Latitude laptop, PIII 750 - 256MB RAM and 40 GB HDD, that I'm dedicating to running linux. Back when I played with FreeBSD for awhile, I looked at both GNOME and KDE as desktop environments with KDE becoming my personal preference. With just the default installs from RH with updates, KDE seems a bit sluggish. I know recompiling the kernel will be a good idea, especially current code since RH is behind. But, I'm looking for any other suggestions as to increase performance or what kind of performance I should expect out of a PIII 750. TIA Mike _______________________________________________ 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