Sir - You could try and use XFCE. It a lighter weight window manager. There is a really nice HOW-TO on FedoraNEWS.ORG http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/diego_figueroa/xfce/ Also, check out Cobind Linux http://cobind.com/ which is based on Fedora. Good luck. Regards, Mac On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:04:29 -0600, donald_sass@xxxxxxxxx <donald_sass@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In order to acquire some self education and to experiment with Linux, I > loaded the Gnome 2.0 Fedora Linux release onto an old 200Mhz 64K > laptop. The laptop previously had Windows 2K installed. > > The laptop performed reasonably using W2k and it was an acceptable > machine for small applications (spreadsheet, word processing, etc). The > Fedora Linux O/S is very slow, it is unusable for any application. > > Is there something wrong, should Fedora be as fast as W2K? > > Thanks for any help. > > Please reply by email to donald_sass@xxxxxxxxx > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
