I also have an older IBM Thinkpad, mine is a A21p with 384MB ram and runs just fine. The only issue I have had is getting my older LeArtery Syncbyair wireless card to work. It is a older Intersil PRISM I card and it looks like the orinoco_cs no longer supports PRISM I cards and only supports PRISM II and above. This is a major bummer, as it worked great in FC6.. Robert On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 20:18 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Alastair Neil wrote: > > Has anyone else experienced terrible desktop performance with F8. > Yes. IBM Thinkpad T20 w/ 384 MB. > Fedora Core 6 was running sweet. Never tried 7. > Fedora 8 would go through periodic slugishness - and then speed up, > though never completely locking up as you are experiencing. > > That combined with the gnome-keyring problems are what drove me to > CentOS - which works as well as Fedora Core 6 did (which makes sense > since they are same versions for much of the software) > > What's really interesting - I've rebuilt a crapload of Fedora 8 and > livna for Fedora 8 src.rpm's for CentOS 5 and installed them - basically > providing everything I need that Fedora had that CentOS does not - and > the system is doing just dandy. > > So the performance issue I'm guessing was (for me anyway) related to the > new gnome and related libs not liking and older laptop with lower memory. > > Your box however sounds like resources wasn't the issue. >
