How Can I Improve Linux Speed

[John Thompson]

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.                                                       ^^^ 

I'm hoping you meant 64M, not 64k!

> 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?

The gnome desktop is pretty resource-intensive.  Try something lighter 
like XFCE (http://www.xfce.org; XFCE packages are included with Fedora 
Core2, if that's what you're using).

You can still use gnome apps with XFCE as long as the gnome libraries 
remain installed; you just don't get the resource-intensive desktop and 
eye-candy.

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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)