Just installed RH8 to give it a whirl and some strangeness has been going on.... Namely,
1. I didn't install sendmail (well, I unchecked it) and the service still tried to start on first boot. Easy fix tho.
2. Loading GDM to login takes a good 10secs during which the monitor changes to 1600x1200 (I hear it clicking) then after the 10secs GDM gives me a login screen.
3. When I login as root or as any other user, it takes about 2mins to get to a desktop (past the redhat intro screen).
4. Evolution (one example) took 2mins to load, and I wasn't doing anything else.

Does anyone know if these issues can be due to some RH config or from using the stock RH kernel?

It's not my setup - ABit KT7-RAID, Athlon 850, 384Mb RAM, 32Mb GeForce.

Cheers
Alim

I think the priniple problem is Gnome. It, as with KDE, is a hog and will usually eat up quite a sizable chunk of memory. You might want to ensure that Linux knows about how much memory is being used... force it in the lilo or grub setups.

Sorry dude, you're wrong! I had a play around and it was my 2 network cards, so if anyone has mysterious slow RH8, just make sure your ethernet setup is ok.

GNOME2 is quick but I do agree you need a fairly fast machine to appreciate it, else it's just a memory/cpu hog.

OK, fair enough. You hadn't mentioned anything about your NICs (presumably you didn't know then... stupid comment really as if you had known, you would surely have mentioned them, and now I'm just rambling) so I was just stabbing in the dark.

Exactly. I didn't think that the oft-touted 'all-knowing, all-seeing' RH would have a problem with having 2 NICs but I tricked it alright.

Even when I went to ifconfig eth1 down, somehow /sbin was not in the default path so it didn't know about it - RH really want you to use their eyecandy tools...