(I'm top posting 'cause I can't find the bottom of this message) Sam, As a 1st step towards speeding up your system, turn off antialiased fonts. I think you currently need to do this for gnome, kde, and openoffice seperately (yes this is inconvenient). As a 2nd step, look into lighter weight window managers (although metacity isn't too bad). 3rd step, upgrade to RedHat 9. The gnome that comes with RedHat 9 is the fastest gnome I've seen (comparable to the first X only gtk releases - maybe thats a little optimistic, but the speedup is pretty significant). This is linux - get rid of your window manager all together and just launch X with an xterm and type oowriter... Heck, get rid of X and just run on the fbdev. OK, so maybe the mantra KISMIF doesn't really float my boat. I'm more into the KICMIF. So, have fun, Kent Sam MacDonald wrote: > OK so*_ I think_* this is what I need, scope is on RH *plink* no more RH > (I have RH 8.0 on the other hard disk, it has everything working. But X > windows and OpenOffice are so slow.) > > KISMIF (Keep It Simple Make It Fun) > > I need to run my computer disposal business from this laptop, it works, > it's all I need, and it was free so that's even better. :-) > > <Hardware> > Micron TransPort XKE, P266mmx, 64 mb ram, 5 gig hd, cdrom, fdd, 2 @ > pcmcia > w/nic&modem, neomagic 128 XD video, ess sound, 13.3 active matrix @ > 1024x768, > usb, ps2 mouse/kbd, zip drive, etc... > </Hardware> > > <Needs> > <Linux> > Slackware or Debian CD's (I don't have a burner) to use for a while. > both would be cool so I could see and feel how they function. > [can't apt-get much today as the debian site has some issues] > </Linux> > > <Software> > I have lots of hard disk space (5 gig) so size is not really an > issue. > KDE 1.x ( anything so it runs fast on my old hardware) > GLIPC 2.2.X or better (*_so I can run OpenOffice_*) > Fast web browser > eMail > Apache (latest stable) > MySQL (latest stable) > PHP (latest stable) > Samba (latest stable) > Cups (latest stable) > -other ?- > Some games so I don't go nuts (oops to late) > Administration tools > GUI apt-get tool would be nice > " must boot to shell " > ideas ? > </Software> > > <Advice> > Advice is welcome. > </Advice> > </Needs> > > <liquidware> > Beer > </liquidware> > > I'm going to be at the beer meeting (some how) but not for long. So I > could pickup the CD's at the meeting. I can afford maybe 1 beer as I > don't have a "job" right now. > > <off topic> > I will have some old laptops soon, (Toshiba, compaq, etc...) they will > not have hard disk drives in them. They will be sold cheep because they > don't have hard disk drives in them. They will be checked to be sure > they function at a basic level. Did I say they will not have hard disks. > </off topic> > > Sam. > > Jima wrote: > >> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Sam MacDonald wrote: >> >> >>> If I could figure out what "rpmlib" is and get it installed I be less >>> tired. >> >> >> It's not a package, per se. It's more of some functions that may or >> may not exist in the version of RPM you have installed. Are you still >> using the default? (`rpm -q rpm` will tell you; the default is, uh, >> 3.0.4-0.48) If so, there's your problem; v3 pretty well sucks, and >> few people package software for it. One of the first packages you >> need to upgrade to get pretty much anywhere on 6.2 is rpm -- it should >> be sitting at 4.0.2-6x. >> >> >> >>> I've been attempting to install OpenOffice and get a message that >>> GLIBC 2.2 or better is needed, no big deal, I down load the rpm. >>> When I try to install GLIBC 2.2.or better it tells me it can't find >>> "rpmlib" I thought "just install a new version of RPM" but to do >>> that I need "rpmlib". >> >> >> Like I said. Any RPM of glibc 2.2 would require RPM v4. Although I >> don't think you want to "upgrade" -- rpm won't like it, and you'll >> almost surely break your system by forcing it. >> >> Jima >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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