On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:47:32PM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
I have an acer p166 (64 MB RAM, awe32 sound card, trio s3 virge video card) which my daughter has been using for WordPerfect 8, MSN (gaim), music CDs and Internet. It had RH 7.3 and ran a little slow. I upgraded it to 8.0 to see just how slow it would run - and, ya, it was *too* slow. I think the hardware is better suited to RH 6.2. That went on easily and everything seems a little faster. However, I can see I'll have to a lot of mucking around - no gaim, so I'll have to find something else that will run MSN, it liked my sound card but then announced that I'll have to compile sound support into the kernel, printing already gave me a little trouble. Problem is is that this is not a test/learning machine - this is my daughter's machine. I don't want to tell her she has to be off it for days and days while I learn about makefile, compiling the kernel (for the first time), etc. So, my question is: Is Rh 6.2 going to so much faster on this machine that's it's going to be worth my daughter being without a computer for a month while I try to get it to do what 7.3 will do right out of the box?
Please, spare the other hundreds of people on the list, the "Gee, Chris, I know the answer to your problem - it's called Windows - embrace the Beaast." comments - or at least send it offline - thanks.
The simple solution is, you don't want to run wordperfect or anything like it, and not really much of X either on just 64MB ram. If you could get a hold of more ram to get 128MB total it would run much much better. Used ram shouldn't be too hard to find unless it uses weird ram. Should be under $50 to upgrade it I imagine. Lennart Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml