Re: [suse-sparc] Linux installed but very slow

From: dan carter (dcarter@waitaki.otago.ac.nz)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 18:24:27 PDT

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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:24:27 +1200
From: dan carter <dcarter@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Linux installed but very slow

    "Eduardo A. Nogueira" wrote:
    >
    > Hello
    >
    > After a couple of days I finally succeed to install Linux suse-sparc 7.1 on
    > one old Sparcstation 1+ with 40 MB of memmory, 2 G scsi HD and a 19`
    > GDM-1604-A15 monitor. Everything seems to work right (nice screen) but
    > veryyyy sloowwww! It took 20 minutes to load kde2, so unusable.
    >
    > Thanks in advance for any help
    >

    you wont ever get a full desktop like kde2 going well on an old machine
    like that.

    Try kde1 or even better, WindowMaker.

    Try running windowsXP on a 386 and you'll get a similar result. 

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