Options For Installing Fedora To Older Laptop

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Jan 31 16:16:39 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:46 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Sunday 30 January 2005 14:26, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 
> > I don't know if FC3 is slower than FC-2 but they are both pretty slow
> > on a 128M RAM machine. X is certainly slow. But how about Open Office,
> > and firefox speed of opening. etc, etc, and so forth.  The swapping
> > alone can torment you endlessly.
> 
> Actually, X is bearable, and so is Firefox,
> on 128MB RAM which I have in the laptop I'm using now,
> but OpenOffice is impossible.
> 
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I think that there's been discussion about commenting out all of the
unnecessary languages in the spell checker that will significantly speed
things up - I don't have the archives up at the moment to search for
them

Craig




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