Your problem is the 128MB of RAM. If you watch your swap memory in a monitor, you'll find that there is a tremendous amount of swapping going on. Upgrading to 512MB of RAM will make a huge difference. Linux runs pretty well on old/slow hardware *as long as it has enough RAM*. I'm not an advocate of your preloading request. On your machine I think it would make things worse, because the preloaded apps are just going to consume some of your valuable RAM and swap out the rest. BTW: Another app that got a lot faster is Evolution. My inbox has 11,000 emails in it and they did something to make it work better with large inboxes. On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 18:17 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > l�3.11.2004 kl. 17.24 skrev Kim Lux: > > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 17:18 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > > > > - Openoffice shoulnt use 30 secounds to load the dictionaries. (only > > > load the default language?) > > > > > > Maybee: > > > - Preloading of Openoffice and default web browser, to make the system > > > respond *imediatly* and open those progs. > > > > OO spell checking used to take forever and now it is almost > > instantaneous. Kudos to whomever did that. > > > > Agreed. Haven't gotten around to install FC3 on my main computer yet... > But the spell checker *still* takes ages to load in FC2. And OO > itself... It took five FIVE minutes to start on an 128 MB RAM 500 Mhz > computer (fc3). > > So preloading firefox and OO when you start gnome, would be a big win. > It would make the computer *seem* a lot faster/responsive. And that is > really what counts for most desktop users. > > > OO is getting faster all the time, in my opinion. In RH8 it was pretty > > slow. > > > > BTW: I just love OO. I use it every day. > > > > Me to. Had to use Word 2003 on friday, and it is lightyears behind OO > when it comes to styles/object placement :) > > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc