6.2 vs. 7.3

[Howard Gibson]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:47:32 -0400
Chris Aitken <aitken-BwLjziHGQLusTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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

Chris,

    I have just upgraded my P233 laptop to Red Hat 8.  I have 64MB of RAM, and it too is running slowly.  Definitely, I am into swap, so my second strategy for speeding things up is more RAM.

    My first strategy for speeding things up is to run FVWM2 instead of Gnome or KDE.  There are a couple of other small window managers out there, but I have a long history with FVWM.  There are a couple of other FVWM freaks in this user group, so you can get help.

    There was some talk about running an FVWM demo at one of the user meetings.  Is there any more interest in this?

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