Combine a 2.4 GHz pc with a 500 Mhz pc?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 17:34:36 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:14, Donald Arseneau wrote:
> Billy Tallis <wtallis at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > How responsive is the slowest one with an app like Firefox? I use a
> > machine that is 200Mhz and 64MB and FF is very slow. I do agree that
> > Gnome isn't as slow as one would expect,
>
> I'll bet! Any chance of stealing more memory? On a 266MHz PII
> I installed a third 64M (for 192M tot) when going to FC3, because
> 128M was too slow. I do find Gnome and KDE slow, so use XFCE or
> icewm.
If you have a much faster machine available on your network
than the one on your desktop, you can always boot your own
machine to runlevel 3 and start X with:
X -query faster_machine
so you can log in graphically and run everything including
the gnome desktop on the fast box.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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