Gosh.  I just installed Mandrake 8.1 w/KDE on my Celeron 500 MHz @
home with 384MB and it's a total dog.  I'm horribly depressed that I
killed my RH 6.2 install, which was pretty zippy.  Now I just sit and
watch throbbing icons as programs take forever to start up, when
things used to be zippy.

Dunno what's causing the problem and haven't had time to investigate
yet....

Also, it installs a symlink from /bin/mail to sendmail even if sendmail
isn't installed.  So for several days emacs sent all my outgoing email
into the bit-bucket...  :-(

R