Check suseplugger. I recently helped someone out that has a fast machine and lots of ram who was running suse and everything was slow. suseplugger was consuming too many resources. I made it dead and the system was peppy once more. Tom Wurdock wrote: >Hello all. > >A friend of my fiance, let's call her "Mel", needs a computer. I decided to >give Mel an old 460 mhz PIII dell. It has 96 mg ram. > >Mel heard about Linux on MPR or something and is willing to try it out. > >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. > >I would hate to have to load windows 98 on it just for speed reasons. > >TOm > > > >_______________________________________________ >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