[ale] SuSE bloated appearance

[Dow Hurst]

What is the graphics card, motherboard, CPU, and RAM in the machine?  
SuSE 9.1 is very responsive on modern hardware and lots of RAM.  KDE is 
slower than XFCE but, hey, you have alot more stuff going on.  Maybe you 
should just run XFCE instead under SuSE.  KDE apps will run there and 
all the basic software runs fine.  The KDE and Gnome menus are available 
via the XFCE menu so you really don't lose much unless you depend on 
KDE's app integration.  Most of us geeks don't ever use that stuff.
Dow


fostermail at bellsouth.net wrote:

>I put Slackware on the Aptiva the guy across the street gave me, (to install w2k on, eventually, I determined, on 2/6G,) but since some kde and d-series tarballs were corrupt, and since [i couldn't find | had to study to install] grub on this 'ticket' on the install CD and onto the hdd,
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>I decided, "hey, not my reader, or miles, just get my 'great unraveling, 'or' HW of Staggering Genius' and lay those SusE CD's on the thing, (which install GRUB on the rootpart'm, in order that my neighbor comfortably encounters the MS boot menu. [ linux.bin = 512b / ] BUT 
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>It is so sssssssslooow.
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>can I wipe out the whole rc.d directory? What if I slap another drive in this unit,, install the cl slackware, and then overlay the entire /etc contents?
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>"To my Volkswagon" -- obviously the thought of one best suited to teaching 6-year-olds, or, perhaps, being taken to a landfill and dealt with via full firing squad
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>TIA fostermail
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