500Mhz and 192Meg of RAM is slow???!!!! That's a great machine, more than probably 70% of the people on the Internet need for what they do. Most people work on MSWord docs and surf the web, and yet they feel the need to always have the latest and fastest PC available. 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. 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 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. Joe Dunsmore wrote: > I have a general question regarding linux and slow computers. I have an > amd 500 mhz and 192 megs of ram minus 8 for video. I'm running redhat 9. > I sometimes have problems running out of memory when doing regular stuff, > sometimes it even seems like it has a larger memory footprint than windows > 98. But here we have someone who was using linux on 64 megs of ram and > reccomending it on 32 megs. X alone takes up about 20 megs of ram for me > and gnome probably another 20. add web browser and email and we have about > 40 more. are you using X when you're using linux? Am I doing something > wrong here? -- Todd Young 7079 Dawn Ave. E. Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076 _______________________________________________ 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