gentoo - wow!! - progress

[Leon A. Goldstein]

dep wrote inter alia:
> i have a little p-166 64-meg machine here, and when i pop 
> in the otherwise identical w2k drive performance just blows the doors 
> off an equivalent linux installation. by "equivalent" i mean with a 
> full-desktop, not some stripped-down thing. any msoffice application 
> opens in well under 30 seconds, while openoffice takes more than 
> three minutes. disk access under linux is very nearly constant; not 
> so with the w2k install. this makes me exceptionally unhappy.
> 

Add some RAM and see what happens.  My "son of lab rat" system is a
Pentium 233, originally with 64 MB of EDO RAM.  I obtained two 64 MB EDO
DIMM's cheap and goosed up total RAM from 64 MB to 160 MB.  Hoo Haa!
KDE 2.x is a RAM hog.  I'd suggest downgrading to KDE 1.x or adding RAM.
-- 
Leon A. Goldstein
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