avatardelta 0 Posted December 8, 2003 could someone help me in getting a faster CPU??? mine runs at 166mhz email me Share this post Link to post
Tekchip 0 Posted December 9, 2003 Only way to get anything faster would be to replace the entire machine. Sorry. Share this post Link to post
Admiral LSD 0 Posted December 9, 2003 You could always install Slackware on it and make the most of it Slackware's real good on slower machines as it doesn't have a lot of the useless cruft distributions like Red Hat or Mandrake do. The downside to this is that it's a tad harder to use but that isn't such a bad thing, you actually learn a thing or two about Linux, notably how to survive outside a GUI environment, something Red Hat and other distros seem content to gloss over, in the process. Share this post Link to post
Dapper Dan 0 Posted December 9, 2003 At a command prompt type: top [ENTER] Check which processes are running, and try to make a determination of which ones you don't really need. You can then find where "services" is located on your distro, and shut some of them down. Be careful, and make sure you can do without it before shutting it down though. That may help some... Share this post Link to post
robvas 0 Posted January 13, 2004 How much RAM do you have? Are you running KDE or GNOME? You might want to try xfce or icewm or fluxbox instead What exactly is 'slow'? Share this post Link to post
