Re: need help for linux!!

[Satya <>]

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On Sep 26, 2000 at 00:51, Kedar Naik Gaonkar wrote:

>I have a PIII 550Mhz machine with 128MB RAM and 12 GB hard disk of which
>6GB is partitioned for each Windows 98 and Redhat Linux 6.2,
>
>But my problem is I find my Linux running very slowly as compared to
>windows though i have lot of data and other softwares(office 2000,Visual
>Studio 6 etc)on Windows.

Can you give some example of running slow? Did you create a swap
partition?

>I have installed only Staroffice on linux from PC Quest CD,but even before
>installing Staroffice it was slow.
>
>I have created three users besides root.
>
>does that make any difference in speed.

None of that makes any difference whatsoever. Except Staroffice and X
itself are slow on my 64MB system.

>also, I want to Know how to find a Disk Space in Linux.

The command is df.

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