How Can I Improve Linux Speed
Macklin Stanley
macklin.stanley at gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 20:20:35 UTC 2004
Sir -
You could try and use XFCE. It a lighter weight window manager.
There is a really nice HOW-TO on FedoraNEWS.ORG
http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/diego_figueroa/xfce/
Also, check out Cobind Linux http://cobind.com/ which is based on Fedora.
Good luck.
Regards,
Mac
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:04:29 -0600, donald_sass at gov.nt.ca
<donald_sass at gov.nt.ca> wrote:
> In order to acquire some self education and to experiment with Linux, I
> loaded the Gnome 2.0 Fedora Linux release onto an old 200Mhz 64K
> laptop. The laptop previously had Windows 2K installed.
>
> The laptop performed reasonably using W2k and it was an acceptable
> machine for small applications (spreadsheet, word processing, etc). The
> Fedora Linux O/S is very slow, it is unusable for any application.
>
> Is there something wrong, should Fedora be as fast as W2K?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Please reply by email to donald_sass at gov.nt.ca
>
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