On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:05:40 -0600 "PHPTOm" <phptom at wordesign.net> wrote: > I loaded SuSe on it and it is soooo slow. Is there a distro out > there that is designed specifically to run on old, slow machines > with little ram. Is it just KDE? Is 450 MHZ not capable? Right > now she has an old (even slower) pII laptop. Is there any way to > optimize KDE to run as efficently as possible? She needs Open > Office. > Slackware, 'nuff said. ;-) BTW, I still have those discs for Slack 9.1 you were interested in.... But, in actuality any distro "should" perform reasonably well. Take a look at what services are running. Go to your /etc/rc.d/init.d (or wherever your startup scripts are located), and see what's in there. I'm sure there's a lot of things you could probably shutdown and the remove from the startup script (or just chmod 444 the init scripts). I'm running RH9 on a P2-266 desktop at work with 128MB ram at best. Not the fastest, but works okay. Also, take a look at your KDE options. You'll probably want to drop the high level of eye-candy that's running. Or, load a nice, quick and light wondow manager such as fvwm2, fvwm92, Blackbox, or the like. Should be RPM's available for SuSe. -- Shawn "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear." -Mark Twain Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ 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