> 500Mhz and 192Meg of RAM is slow???!!!! It's not slow, but sometimes I run out of memory. As time goes on, this happens less frequently however. > My primary is a 750Mhz Duron with 768Meg of RAM running Win98SE > (yeah, > > yeah, I know). > My secondary is a 400Mhz Intell with 384Meg of RAM running > Mandrake9.1 > > and it works great. Actually both PCs work great. I have no problems > with "speed" on either machine. you have quite a bit more memory than I do. > I may be way off base here,(let the flames begin!) but it seems that > Redhat is following in Microsoft's footsteps by "bloating" the > so-called > "basic" system, which in turn creates a slower system. At least with > SUSE you can choose a "bare-bones" install. My advice. Reload the > system > and this time manually go through the applications that are loaded > and but wouldn't that just take up room on my hard drive, not my memory? > prune out some of the stuff that you never use, maybe even consider > going with Slackware or VectorLinux or Debian. I've got a great > article > that I printed out that guides you through installing a very "base" > Debian system, I think it takes less than 500Megs of disk space. I > could > probably scan it and send it out, or maybe even find the URL on the > printout. I never accept the "default" application load on any > operating system, Linux or Windows. I plan on trying out a lot of different distros, but most of my memory is taken up by X and gnome, how's redhat actually come into play here? Could it be that gtk takes up more space than related windows libraries and that when I use mozilla, this results in stuff in memory not doing anything? I'll repeat that actually right now, my system isn't going into virtual memory but when I was first using it, that would happen constantly, even when using the same apps. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list