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

[Vince Hoang]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:26:35PM -1000, xxd wrote:
>  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.
>  ;(

Yes, switching to a lighter weight window manager will give
you the best bang for the buck. If you can afford it, add more
memory.

> Maybe not an option, another option would be looking into
> a more "bare-bones" distro such as crux/gentoo/ maybe even
> freebsd?

Gentoo and FreeBSD may give you a speed bump because you get the
opportunity to recompile all the binaries. So everyþhing you run
is optimized for your CPU. But, I would not call them bare-bones.
8000+ ports is rather large.

0 azrael at world:/> wc -l /usr/ports/INDEX
    8251 /usr/ports/INDEX

-Vince