On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:14, Donald Arseneau wrote: > Billy Tallis <wtallis@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > How responsive is the slowest one with an app like Firefox? I use a > > machine that is 200Mhz and 64MB and FF is very slow. I do agree that > > Gnome isn't as slow as one would expect, > > I'll bet! Any chance of stealing more memory? On a 266MHz PII > I installed a third 64M (for 192M tot) when going to FC3, because > 128M was too slow. I do find Gnome and KDE slow, so use XFCE or > icewm. If you have a much faster machine available on your network than the one on your desktop, you can always boot your own machine to runlevel 3 and start X with: X -query faster_machine so you can log in graphically and run everything including the gnome desktop on the fast box. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
