What about vector linux.<br><br>Is a bootable cd available for that.<br><br>Isn't that designed for legacy machines.<br><br>Khawar<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Waqas Toor
</b> <<a href="mailto:waqasnasirtoor@gmail.com">waqasnasirtoor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi mubashar,<br>the thing about slow is mine one took about 1 hr :)<br>and you'll face this slow time no matter what if you didnt upgrade your ram<br>... now about tweaking,<br>Gnome will consume all of the memory because the swap (virtual mem ) is also
<br>our ram and gnome also takes a lot of ram ... so what can a computer bechara<br>do :)<br>what i know that when at the time of boot when the kernel starts to show<br>messages of booting and uncompressing linux etc ... try hitting ALT + CTRL +
<br>F1 key ... this will alow you to switch to not graphical mode ... and then<br>wait for the boot process to end and you'll get a login prompt<br>then at that time again press ALT + CTRL + F7 key .. and you'll see you<br>
desktop loaded ... now again a slow process ...but due to this all the fancy<br>startup screens will be gone and you'll see you desktop ....<br><br>now if you want to really switch to linux ... try installing linux ... not
<br>in your system then on some spare system etc ...and upgrade your system if<br>you really want to get the feel of Good live cd experience<br>--<br>Waqas Toor<br>member of Ubuntu Pakistani Team<br><a href="mailto:waqas@ubuntu-pk.org">
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