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

[Simon Mushi]

 K,


>From the performance I remember having on my G3 minitower (300Mhz, 512Mb
Ram, 18Gig HD) I can tell you it was often times slower running linux than
my PII 300. I  was unsuccesful in installing ydl 3.0, drake and only
debian ppc woody was able to complete an install. And running gnome and
just a web-browser I was almost convinced to using os9 on the
machine...but common sense told me otherwise :). I think a good option
would be to use a lightweight but very functional wm such as fluxbox (my
favorite) or xfce. And if you desire to tweak out even more performance
you can explore the gentoo linux distro (which I've had for a while on my
pc). There is a lot of opionionated debate about the extent to which the
"compile from scratch with custom optimizations" a la gentoo will speed up
a box, but I will try and get gentoo onto my G3 in the coming weeks and
see for myself.

Best

Simon

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Keith Yares Engel 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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