Thanks for the news. I'll have to look at my install to see what's making it such a dog. I've been peeking periodically with 'top', but all I see is lots of time going into idle, while the little icons that tell me I should have a program running, are doing pointless animations.... Anyone have any suggestions for diagnosing this? R >>>>> "DS" == Dave Sherman <dsherman at real-time.com> writes: DS> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 DS> On Friday 19 October 2001 10:01, Robert P. Goldman opined on DS> the topic: Re: [TCLUG] Mandrake on a P100? >> 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.... DS> It runs fine on my Celeron 366 with 192MB... Actually, Gnome DS> is pretty slow (Nautilus is a killer), but KDE is pretty DS> quick. DS> Dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 DS> (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org DS> iD8DBQE70EgTA68l26XsZUYRAni7AJ9S4NfxUfCjoy/texji/zA/BIPXwgCgjnw7 DS> +d8trfe3Jmo0XWGcroytdkA= =mbER -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----