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On Friday 25 May 2007 15:28, Ray Smith wrote: > It seemed OK on a 400mhz AMD with 196mb ram and a 16mb voodoo card that I > had to use temporarily a couple of weeks ago. > Not very quick admittedly but did the job. > No problem with the creative 16bit card either. This is about 10years old. > Ran quicker than win xp that I tried as a test install which too about 2 > hours to install and set up. > Fiesty about 40 mins. > I added a usb pci card to use my palm with it and wireless mouse and hey > presto ! > > Ray Turning off unneccesary graphical eye candy helps a lot to speed things up. On Kubuntu, I always turn off the shadow effects and bouncy icons etc on older machines. Also, going through the services which are running is a good idea. There are always a few which you may not use - cups for instance if you don't use a printer, or bluetooth daemons if you don't have bluetooth. Using a plain desktop background will help a little. If you are familiar with XFCE, using Xubuntu is a good choice on older systems, although cutting the eye candy right back on a (K)Ubuntu system and stopping those services you don't use will make the mainstream versions work just as well in my view. Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html