[Wlug] Fedora Disapointment

[Frank Sweetser]

dulsi at identicalsoftware.com wrote:
> I understand that my laptop is old.  Every time I've upgraded Red  
> Hat/Fedora, I've liked the new system until Fedora 8.  I didn't always  
> upgrade.  I skipped Fedora 7 since the live CD didn't boot on my  
> laptop but Fedora 6 ran great.  Fedora 8 is a dog with my small amount  
> of memory (256M).  I'm thinking I'll buy more memory but it  
> disappoints me that Fedora runs poorly with 256M.  (I would buy a new  
> laptop but I'm just not impressed with the current offerings.)

256M isn't a lot of memory these days, but I'm running a handful of virtual 
machines with only 256M and they work well enough.  You might try to check out 
what's running on your system, and prune out extra daemons and the like that 
you don't need.  Use the chkconfig and ntsysv commands to manage what services 
are started up.

Also, you may want to try disabling the SELinux security extensions.  Edit 
/etc/sysconfig/selinux , make sure the SELINUX variable is set to disabled, 
reboot, and see if that helps.

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