There are only a few things to make an old system run faster: - put in all the ram you can salvage from old equipment - disable swap. - replace the harddrive with some kind of solid state disk, e.g. cf-card + ide-adapter (I have two of these things in my "box of little things I probably will never use" - just drop a line if you need one) Nik Am Mittwoch, 4. Dezember 2013 schrieb Darrell Anderson: > All, > > Do you have experience with running Trinity on older hardware? > > I have a PI and a PII. For years I ran KDE 3.5.10 on both. While > hardly the fastest hardware, and 3.5.10 hardly the snappiest > desktop environment, the system was usable. Trinity R14 on both > systems is almost unusable. Starting Trinity takes a minute or two. > Opening konsole takes 7-10 seconds. Opening a preloaded konqueror > takes 20-25 seconds. > > I realize free/libre software never truly supported older hardware > despite claims otherwise and developers instead move relentlessly > onward with bleeding edge hardware. Still, because of the many > improvements I would think Trinity R14 would fare better, at least > as good as 3.5.10. > > Any ideas? Any help? > > Darrell > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@... Read list > messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp Einnehmerstra�e 14 A-4810 Gmunden Tel.: +43 650 82 11 724 email: office@...