Redhat 7.1

[samon]

I've just finished installing readhat 7.1 and tweaking it up, almost everything is ok but still have few questions:
1. What is the best video (AVI) player under linux and where to get it, is fullscreen supported?
2. How to access the lan in Kde? it should be done somehow in LAN Browsing-Kde control module.
3. My system seems to be a bit slow, I have duron@950 + 128MB RAM, should adding more ram increase the overall speed?
Thanx for support :)

[DaMasta]

1.I use avifile. I'm not sure if it does full screen. I'm not at my linux box right now otherwise, I'd tell you.

2.Lan Browsing: Can you ping your other boxes? Are they linux or windows. If windows, you need samba and linneighborhood. Technically, you don't need the latter but it is graphical which may make for easier browsing.

3.Kde is generally slow by nature. More ram never hurts especially at todays prices but you can also try a different window manager.

[Tyr-7BE]

Looking for fast? Try Blackbox, WindowMaker, or XFCE. None of them are as featureful as KDE 2 or Gnome 1.4, but none of them are as bloated either.

[Malakin]

Going to 256 will speed things up, linux uses extra ram very well. I like KDE, stick with it :)

For avi's I use aviplay and the xmms plugin, I can actually play more avi's then mediaplayer 6.2 can. I've got it working with drag and drop or a single click on any .avi/.asf. A simple right click on it runs it full screen, another right click and it's back in a windows, very slick. If you have any performance problems then it's probably your video drivers, I seem to be getting similar performance to windows.

This probably won't help you but I just use smbmount to read the drives on all the other computers, "smbmount //192.168.0.100/myshare /smb/myshare -o username=myusername,password=mypassword" and I throw a bunch of these in my rc.local file. I noticed there's some lan browsing stuff in the gui for mandrake 8.0 but I haven't tried it yet.

[hambleto]

You should bring your machine up to 256 at least and increase your swapfile equally. RedHat 7.1 is a memory and processor hog. Much more so that 7.0 (I believe the kernal) Plus RH 7.1 seems to run alot more programs all the time than redhat. One thing you may want to look into is the speed of your HD. If you are running a 5400RPM drive then it will be much slower when it is the swap file. I have been trying to use all 7200RPM drives and that made a BIG differnce in swap performance. Good Luck!

[teh supar faggort1]

Question for DaMasta: Where do I get Samba and linneighborhood?? I really need to get my computer on thenetwork... I got it to use my proxy server really easy, but i dont know how to get to the other windows boxes!! :-) Thanks for the help...