Slow slow slow.

[Phillip Susi]

If you prefer fluxbox to full blown gnome, then install fluxbox.  I'm 
not sure what you're asking for.  Also are you exaggerating when you say 
5 minutes?  What kind of hardware is this?  A P-100 with 16 megs of ram?


Gabriel Jägenstedt wrote:
> Heya!
>
> I'm new to this list and have a problem.
>
> Ubuntu is VERY slow, it can take up to 5 minutes to start apps like
> grip, gnomebaker and gkrellm, before I did a reinstall nothing was
> bogged down and flew by. The last system was built by apt-get
> dist-upgrade from debian unstable a long time ago but now I installed
> from install-cd and got a lot of crap like gnome that I really don't
> want. I have never experienced this before. I run fluxbox and I'm used
> to a very responsive system.
>
> It is also important to state that several other applications like
> firefox xterm and the like are barely noticed as taking time.
> This far it's only been the g-applications =)
>
> Thanks in advance to any help.
>
>   

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