I agree with Ovidiu. FC's implementations of GNOME have been very bloated for me. KDE is much better. I would try something else if I knew what to try, that was super-fast. Next install time I will probably try to unload a lot of apps to speed things up, there is a lot that I just don't need. Marc <div>On 4/14/05, Ovidiu Lixandru <<a href="mailto:ovidiu@linux360.ro">ovidiu@linux360.ro</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Robert F. Chapman wrote: > I have been keeping up with the Fedora Releases since FC1 and I have > noticed that in FC1,2,3 Gnome is very sluggish compared to RH9.0. > Things like opening a terminal can take 10 - 15 seconds. Running > Programs take just as long. It's kinda hard to convince Windows XP > users they need to move, when GNOME is performing poorly. GNOME is getting more bloated by the day. It's a shame FC moved XFce into Extras, as far as I'm concerned GNOME 2.x should have been there. Anyway, a functional solution (replacement more likely) is XFce. It runs very smoothly on a P3@1GHz w/ 512MB of RAM and a 64MB GeForce MX440. The memory usage dropped after full desktop environment startup by 80MB (!), applications start and "feel" much faster (I heavily use Firefox and GAIM and there's a big difference to GNOME) and even non-related apps are snappier (i.e. Java-based jEdit). Hopefully, GNOME 3 will get rebuilt from scratch and learn a bit from its younger brother. Until then, bye bye GNOME. -- Ovidiu Lixandru linux360 -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div>