Hey all, I'm having some annoying problems with my work machine.
 
Specs:
NEC Powermate 2000
PIII 600
128 MB Ram
18 GB HD
 
The machine is an all in one machine with a flat panel monitor built into it. The monitor base houses all components.
 
Problem:
 
This machine is slow!
Very very very slow!
 
I'm currently running Ubuntu Warty Warthog, but I previously ran SuSE 8.2 and Yoper 2.1 on it with the same issues. It used to have windows 98 on it but I formatted it off.
 
The problem did not occur in windows but all linux distros run extremely slowly.
GNOME is unbearably slow.
WindowMaker even is slow - 2-4 seconds just to open the Applications menu by right clicking on the desktop. Up to a minute to switch between Firefox and Openoffice, which is extruciating.
 
What could the problem be? I enabled Unix large disk access mode in the bios but it didn't help, neither did enableing and disabling DMA. There is a 800 MB swap partition also...
 
Anyone know why this machine is so slow?