On 19 Dec 2003 01:11:53 -0500 Stephen Oulton <roulton623-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

It runs very slow. When I click to start an application it takes about 30 seconds before the application starts to boot up.

I have found that most of the applications that came with it will work. The ones that I would like to work don't. GT Catalog for one. I can read a CD with Konqueror and it reads it fine. When I go to scan the CD with GT Catalog it freezes the whole operating system. I can't even log out. The only thing that works is the reset button.

My system is a Pentium III, 733 megahertz, with 2 10 gigabyte drives. I don't think that is should run so slow.

Austin makes some good points re the speed factor. I have 9.1 running my webserver on a P166, and while it won't win any contests, it certainly doesn't take 30 seconds to open an app. If you open a terminal and type "top", is there anything (at the top of the list) using a lot of your CPU time or memory? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold..." -- William Butler Yeats -- 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