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. ^^^
I'm hoping you meant 64M, not 64k!
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?
The gnome desktop is pretty resource-intensive. Try something lighter like XFCE (http://www.xfce.org; XFCE packages are included with Fedora Core2, if that's what you're using).
You can still use gnome apps with XFCE as long as the gnome libraries remain installed; you just don't get the resource-intensive desktop and eye-candy.
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-John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
