Re: Suggestions for increasing speed on an older (but not ancient) machine.

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:40:53AM -0600, Hal Watson wrote:

> My hardware is a Pentium II - 350, with 128mb ram.  My video card is
> nothing special, maybe 8mb ram.
> 
> The default Gnome setup seemed kinda slow - so I gave KDE a try and
> that definitely seems faster on my machine and coming from my background
> it feels a little easier to use as well.  But I'm not satisfied yet. 
> Compared to the Win98 experience, I feel like I'm jogging with a 50
> pound backpack.  I can do it but it doesn't stay fun for long.

Try turning off MagicDev in Gnome.  There have been reports that this
creates a huge performance problem.

Dave Cook



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