disto for laptop

[Mark Phillips]

Mark,

I ran into the same problems with my old Inspiron 3000 (233 MHz Pentium 
MMX, 148 MB RAM, 6 GB hard drive). I had the same issue with Redhat 7.3, 
but I had to rebuild the kernel since it would not recognize my pcmcia 
cards. When I recompiled the kernel I tried to optimize it for Pentium MMX, 
but I noticed very little if any speed improvement. I then installed 
Mandrake 8.2 and it is much faster, and Debian is even faster (even using 
X).

In addition, Mandrake and Debian did a much better job with the NeoMagix 
video chips - the fonts are much crisper and the whole screen "pops" just 
as it did with Windows. (I think Redhat 7.3 used an earlier version of 
Xfree, so that was probably the problem with the display, and I never tried 
to install a new version and I am not sure what Redhat 8 uses).

Mark Phillips
Phillips Marketing, Inc.
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
480 945-0798
480 945-9197 fax

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-----Original Message-----
From:	myers@fastq.com [SMTP:myers@fastq.com]
Sent:	Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:47 PM
To:	plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject:	disto for laptop

I have a Compaq Armada 7792DMT laptop w/96 MB RAM and 5 GB hard disk. It 
has a
Pentium 266M processor (not PII). I have installed RedHat 8 & Lindows 3 on 
it
(yes, I paid $99 for a Linux distro) but they both seem very slow. The only 
OSes that I get to run a a decent speed are Mandrake and Win2K.
I really want to use RedHat 8 on it. After install, if I recompile the 
kernel,
will that help my speed issues?  I know it is never going to be blazing in 
X,
but it really shouldn't take 15 seconds to get the reply window up when
replying to an e-mail in Evolution.
TKIA.

Mark Myers



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