Thank you all for your productive feedback. I will sit back and enjoy and
observe my box for some time. Then I will decide which, if any, programs to
remove. I have 256 Mb of RAM, but the machine makes a lot of noice during
start up, sounds like the harddrive is working, searching, like crazy.

"Hamilcar Barca" <hamilcar@tld.always.invalid> skrev i meddelandet
news:20050109205414.288$0H@news.newsreader.com...
> In article <SkjEd.13809$d5.116221@newsb.telia.net> (Sun, 09 Jan 2005
> 23:43:46 +0000), Bengt Boysen wrote:
>
> > Hi. I have SuSe 9.2 Professional installed and this is my first Linux
> > version. When I installed it I installed EVERYTHING: Now I have heard
and
> > read on several forums that this might slow the computer down.
>
> Possible but not likely.
>
> > This should specially apply if have GNOME installed with KDE.
>
> If you run Qt (KDE) and GNOME (GTK) applications at the same time, you
> might use more memory than if you only ran one or the other. Unless
> you're extremely short on memory, why worry about it?
>
> > Is this so
>
> Sort of.
>
> > and can I uninstall GNOME without compromising dependencies and so on?
>
> Certainly.
>
> > What other things, software do you recommend that I remove, I want to
> > have a fast working Linux box.
>
> You can remove any application you're not using, if the system doesn't
> need it. Why not run Linux for some time, gain some experience, and then
> start removing things you don't need? If you're determined to try to
> improve performance by removing packages, you might start by looking to
> see what services you're starting at boot time.
>
>
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