6.2 vs. 7.3

[Chris Aitken]

I have an acer p166 (64 MB RAM, awe32 sound card, trio s3 virge video
card) which my daughter has been using for WordPerfect 8, MSN (gaim),
music CDs and Internet. It had RH 7.3 and ran a little slow. I upgraded
it to 8.0 to see just how slow it would run - and, ya, it was *too*
slow. I think the hardware is better suited to  RH 6.2. That went on
easily and everything seems a little faster. However, I can see I'll
have to a lot of mucking around - no gaim, so I'll have to find
something else that will run MSN, it liked my sound card but then
announced that I'll have to compile sound support into the kernel,
printing already gave me a little trouble. Problem is is that this is
not a test/learning machine - this is my daughter's machine. I don't
want to tell her she has to be off it for days and days while I learn
about makefile, compiling the kernel (for the first time), etc. So, my
question is: Is Rh 6.2 going to so much faster on this machine that's
it's going to be worth my daughter being without a computer for a month
while I try to get it to do what 7.3 will do right out of the box?

Please, spare the other hundreds of people on the list, the "Gee, Chris,
I know the answer to your problem - it's called Windows - embrace the
Beaast."  comments - or at least send it offline - thanks.

Chris

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