[luau] Redhat 8 Slow on my P2-300 MHZ 128MB Ram Laptop

[xxd]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:10:27 -1000
"demon_jr808" <demon_jr808 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 1. Can anyone tell me how I can disable Gnome/KDE and just run "plain"
> X-Windows (or does Gnome/KDE and X-Windows go hand-in-hand, meaning you
> cannot have one without the other)?
> 

	You need to switch window managers... check out http://freshmeat.net for a list of good ones. ( I like blackbox myself. )   Gnome or KDE must be appauling at 300 MHZ.  ;(




> 2. Any other suggestions as to why Redhat 8.0 is running slow on my laptop
> and what steps I can take to improve performace?
	
	300 MHZ is quite slow for software nowadays... I know of several people who run RH 6.2 on older laptops with good speed reports...
Maybe not an option, another option would be looking into a more "bare-bones" distro such as crux/gentoo/ maybe even freebsd?

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