Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine
Incoming from Tim Connors:
> Don Jackson <don1103@azark.com> said on Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:45:10 -0500:
> > I have installed sarge with kernel 2.4.26 on it -- no problem. Actually,
> > everything works fine on it, with KDE and Kmail and Mozilla-Firefox as my
> > choices (since that's what I'm using myself). The problem is that with only
> > a 166 MHz processor speed and the limited 96MB of RAM, the machine is
> > agonizingly sloooooow! (I'm spoiled by my own new 2.8GHz P4 with 1GB RAM)
> > For example, it takes about 4-1/2 minutes for cold boot up to the KDE
> > desktop. I almost fall asleep every time I wait for Kmail to come up, and
> > the same for the address book. Once Kmail is up and running, it's response
> > is satisfactory.
>
> So, stick with the lighter window managers (I use fvwm, but I don't
> recommend it to anyone but advanced users -- if only it came with a
Actually, Debian's fvwm is quite nice. You just need to read the
system.fvwmrc to understand you can override anything in there with
~/.fvwm/*.hooks settings.
However, I'll add a reccomendation for fluxbox to the mix. You get
pretty menus just like fvwm, but configuring it is much simpler. It's
all controlled by three files in ~/.fluxbox, all of which are easy
to change with a text editor.
As for staying away from k* apps, remember not everything that is k*
is KDE stuff. Vis. kupdated, kswapd, kapmd, ...
Also, you might like to glance at balsa instead of kmail. It's GUI,
and I thought it fairly decent when I tried it (I prefer mutt).
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