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Hello,
I've just installed Mandrak 8.2 yesterday, and it seems to take forever to start up and shut down.
In fact, whenever I restart of shut down, it seems to freeze and so I end up having to manually shut off the computer.
Then the next time I reboot into linux, not only do I have to sit through the long start up process, but halfway through, linux repairs the errors created by the 'unclean' shutdown, which takes even longer.
Linux seems to take even longer than Windows! Is this is a result of the way I installed it? I think I have something like 40 services that start at boot up (most of them are system services), if this makes any difference.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
I've just installed Mandrak 8.2 yesterday, and it seems to take forever to start up and shut down.
In fact, whenever I restart of shut down, it seems to freeze and so I end up having to manually shut off the computer.
Then the next time I reboot into linux, not only do I have to sit through the long start up process, but halfway through, linux repairs the errors created by the 'unclean' shutdown, which takes even longer.
Linux seems to take even longer than Windows! Is this is a result of the way I installed it? I think I have something like 40 services that start at boot up (most of them are system services), if this makes any difference.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
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hello
It is slower than windows 98.. but it seems to take about the same time as windows xp to me. Try other desktop evironment like ICEWM or gnome... KDE is the slowest to load. |
dear moshikan,
it is old this stuff try using fedora and it will be fine and sweet to use due to its quickness,,,,,,, |
hi mohsikhan89,
ur linux is slow as it is an old one dear,try to get new ones in order to get speed;-) |
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