How Can I Improve Linux Speed

[Yang Xiao]

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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The only thing I can think of with this setup is not to run the GUI at
all, but that obviously is not what you want.

Yang