Hello friends
I will work my problem with my little english.
I found a old laptop at our workplace 2 days ago and I wanted install slackware on it and installed slackware 13.37 but the laptop is very slow.I need some advice for speed up the laptop.My friend suggessed to me Lxde instead of KDE.What should I do for speed up the laptop?
I dont know the laptop's hard feature but there are labels on the laptop :
-Intel Pentium M CPU
-ATI 9100 256 MB graphic card,
-256 MB RAM(my guess)

Thanks for your helps

What exactly is slow ? Booting it ? Running programs ?

For booting make sure to use the lilo compact option. So make sure the word 'compact' is in '/etc/lilo.conf'. If it isn't add it on a separate line, and run 'lilo' as root to save changes. Old laptops benefit a lot from this. You may also want to use the generic kernel + initrd.

For other things, yeah for such an old laptop KDE is really gonna struggle, so use fluxbox, LXDE, icewm, etc.

Running problem.Also Booting slow but booting not important for me.I will install each one of fluxbox, LXDE, icewm but Will it speed up the laptop?
Will I work nomaly after install each one of them?

You also have to switch to one of these window managers, not just install them.

Ok.I didn't know they automatic install with install slackware.I will switch each one of them but which should I install ?.Which is one fastest than others?

Do you understand me?

I've used KDE 4.x on systems with more CPU power, more RAM and a better video card (various setups but the low end machines I personally own and have tested KDE 4.X with were Athlon 1200, Athlon 2200+ with 512MB/1GB and ATI 9600XT and nVidia 6600GT) and from my expereince, KDE 4.X is very video card dependant. The 9600XT was 'meh' with KDE 4.X, the 6600GT was OK.

You could go to Lxde. Persoanlly, I dont like it, and its not worth using to save a few MB or RAm at idle over Xfce.

Fluxbox and other WMs should be faster than DEs like Xfce, but again, not really worth it for me. Even with less CPU power and a far worse video card, I still tend to use Xfce. I've run Xfce more than happily on a P3-800, intel i810 video (yuck!) and 256MB.

BTW, you dont need to guess the amount of RAM you have, check htop/top. If they arent installed, install one of them...they are good fro tracking down which process is eating all of your RAM and/or CPU cycles.

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They're all fast, try them all.

I have on old laptop with the same CPU and RAM. KDE is very slow with constant disk swapping (and consequent battery drain) due to RAM requirements. Using Windowmaker as the window manager is a much better experience.
Switch to the generic kernel with an initrd if you have not already done so. RAM is precious.
Use xaps where possible as they tend to be lighter without the need to load the large support libraries that KDE aps tend to require.

Ati 9100 256 MB? I doubt of it. You should post for all of us the output of dmesg command. There is everything about your hardware. We will see what do you have on board. Guessing is not quite a good solution.

I use Openbox, and even on my Intel Core i7 machine it's unbelievably faster than KDE (which is the slowest, most heavyweight DE out there).

In Openbox, the time from when I enter "startx" to the time the desktop is ready to use is a tiny fraction of a second, while in KDE it's about 30 seconds.

Thank you all friends.I started use xfce and it is very good.Laptop is speeded up
Again thanks

Yeah, XFCE is lighter than KDE, but the ones listed above are even faster. However, if you like XFCE, use that.

Agreed. XFce is a nice choice and stick with it if you like it. For those system specs I would use Fluxbox. Fluxbox is not as user friendly, but, runs very light and fast on older hardware.

I will try Fluxbox.I think the fluxbox installed such as XFce with install slackware on my laptop.
But I looked over XFce and I like it.Also XFce is enough fast and comprehensible

If there are big fast differences between Fluxbox and XFce then I can use Fluxbox.