Hi, I just installed Fedora Core 1 on a system with an Athlon XP 2500+ on an ASUS A7V600 motherboard, with 512 MB PC3200 400MHz RAM, and Maxtor 120G A133/7200RPM hard disk. I followed some hints on here: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-December/msg02148.html to get the ethernet recognized and network working. The only problem I have now is that it takes a noticeably long time for applications to start up, and I'm not talking about apps like OpenOffice. For example, it takes about 8 seconds for konsole or terminal to startup. Once the apps start-up they are as responsive as I'd expect. I searched the list, and I've seen a lot of comments that getting RPMs built on Athlons doesn't getting the execution speed much, but could they help the start-up times? I'd just go ahead and check myself, but I can't seem to find anywhere where I can find such rpms for Fedora. Must I roll my own? On another Athlon XP 2500, but on an ASUS A7V8X motherboard and again with 512 MB RAM (PC2700 333 MHz) and a Maxtor (80G A133/7200RPM), the application start-up times are very impressive. Since the only major difference between the systems is the motherboard (the video cards are the same also), could the motherboard possibly be the reason? Also, on two intels, and old athlon 1200, again Fedora shines. Thanks for any input.
