Re: [LUG] RH 9.x

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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John Horne wrote:
| On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 09:59, Neil Stone wrote:
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|>I have installed and run RedHat 9 for a little while.. In all honesty I
|>am disapointed... It was very slow, took all the RAM and CPU available
|>even filled the swap... After 30 mins I was able to get myself logged in
|>(30 mins after entering username/password) to a useable state.
|>
|
| On what hardware? I have just given a redhat 9 installation course to
| several people on 128MB, 400MHz machines and it was fine. Today we
| looked at the desktop and it was slow...but worked. OpenOffice, yup slow
| - took a minute or two to load. Mozilla and evolution, better but not
| ideal. Most other general things were quick enough. The login/logout bit
| was fine. For a 2hour course we wouldn't have got far if it took 30mins
| to login! :-)
|
| My understanding is that 'severn' will become redhat 10 - I didn't think
| RH were using point numbers anymore.
|
|
| John.
|

1.8Ghz Celeron CPU (3558.34 bogomips)
128Mb DDR RAM
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