On Monday 13 May 2002 21:47, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I can't believe how slow SuSE 8.0 is. To print out an email is 1 minute 20 seconds until the printer starts. To boot up is around 5 minutes. I have a Pentium 166 and 64 MB ram, which may be kind of minimal, but this is ridiculous. Version 7.1 did not do this.
I set up ver 8.0 Pro with EXT3 on a SCSI drive of its own. I'm running that now, as I write this. I have never seen anything this slow and unreponsive.
If anyone has a clue, please pass it on.
--doug
doug, I think we all have to realize as the these programs mature, so do their needs. I would suspect that if you ran a minimal window manager, etc. that you would find it to be as speedy as ever. I know while experimenting with a customer's machine recently, a dual P90 w/96mb ram, 7.3 didn't hardly want to install on it! It did after a couple of tries, but was painfully slow. I ended up going back to 7.2 and that was much better, but still nothing I would want to do computing on for very long. Programs just get bigger as a rule and running something like KDE3 is going to require a little more horsepower than say just a prompt or one of the smaller window managers. Yes, Linux will run on a 486 still, but if you want all the bells and whistles, you had better be a patient person! ;o) Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb