successful install on beige g3 300, but really slow (?) why?

[Norberto Quintanar]

What video driver are you using?
--- Keith Yares Engel <y_e_productions@yahoo.com> wrote:
> So, I successfully installed ydl 3.0 on my beige g3 300 minitower.
> My machine specs are like this: g3 300 (factory), 256 ram, 8 gig hd
> (divided 1 gig for os 9, 7 gig for ydl), ati rage 128 with 16 megs
> ram.
>  
> Everything's cool but i'm noticing that it seems to be pretty slow.
>  Is this normal? Like, mac-os-x-on-my-machine caliber slow.
> applications seem to take too long to load...os 9 is much quicker. 
> seems bogged down.... forget that tux racer game.
>  
> I'm wondering if it's because maybe:
> -i did the full install, all 5.5 gigs of ydl onto a 7 gig
> partition.
> -i'm running kde instead of gnome.
> -or something else is out of whack.
>  
> -or this is just how it is. hopefully, this is not the case. one of
> the many reasons why i'm making this switch to linux is because i
> wanted an o.s. that wasn't very heavy on top of my system. what i'm
> seeing isn't thrilling me very much...
>  
> help, anyone?  suggestions? ways to run ydl much lighter on my
> system?
>  
> thanks
> k
> 
> 
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