Re: [LUG] RH 9.x

["Gemma Peter" <gemma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 09:59, Neil Stone wrote:
>
> > I have installed and run RedHat 9 for a little while.. In all honesty I
> > am disapointed... It was very slow, took all the RAM and CPU available
> > even filled the swap... After 30 mins I was able to get myself logged in
> > (30 mins after entering username/password) to a useable state.
> >
> On what hardware? I have just given a redhat 9 installation course to
> several people on 128MB, 400MHz machines and it was fine. Today we
> looked at the desktop and it was slow...but worked. OpenOffice, yup slow
> - took a minute or two to load. Mozilla and evolution, better but not
> ideal. Most other general things were quick enough. The login/logout bit
> was fine. For a 2hour course we wouldn't have got far if it took 30mins
> to login! :-)

I am also (barely) running RedHat 9 on a box with low specs Pentium 200MHz,
32MB RAM.
It is so slow (not a surprise) but it doesn't take more than 30 mins to log
in! I should probably have at least 128MB RAM but PC 66 is difficult to get
hold of, and it fried one of the chips I had. I just bought a new
motherboard anyway (I blagged the one I'm using at the moment) it is a
450MHz Pentium III, need to save up for some RAM though. Looking forward to
a decent speed box to experiment with.




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