On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:46 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > On Sunday 30 January 2005 14:26, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I don't know if FC3 is slower than FC-2 but they are both pretty slow > > on a 128M RAM machine. X is certainly slow. But how about Open Office, > > and firefox speed of opening. etc, etc, and so forth. The swapping > > alone can torment you endlessly. > > Actually, X is bearable, and so is Firefox, > on 128MB RAM which I have in the laptop I'm using now, > but OpenOffice is impossible. > ---- I think that there's been discussion about commenting out all of the unnecessary languages in the spell checker that will significantly speed things up - I don't have the archives up at the moment to search for them Craig