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

From: Bryan W. Headley (bheadley@interaccess.com)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 18:51:50 PDT

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:51:50 -0500
From: "Bryan W. Headley" <bheadley@interaccess.com>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Linux installed but very slow

    dan carter wrote:

    > "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.
    >
    >

    KDE and Gnome both do too much in the background. Solaris was bad on my
    old IPC, too. The best bet is to run a "simple" window manager like Fvwm
    or WindowMaker. Hmm, XFCE might be just what he wants (www.xfce.org)... 

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