Slouching Mandrake
“| I have recently started on the road to Linux conversion and loaded Mandrake 7.2, sharing the hard drive with my other OS. But the system seems rather slow. Is this because of the shared disk space?
I have also had several problems while trying to load GNOME. I chose to use it alongside KDE and, while it loaded okay, a gdm icon appears at the login screen and demands a password which I was not prompted to supply. How can I gain access to GNOME?
Roland Crump
Linux behaves slovvly, it is more likely il to be due to having an excessive number ^ 1 of services running, rather than a fault vvith the installation – lack of disk space certainly vvould not cause it. If you login from a shell as root and type: ps ax
it vvill list ali processes on the machine and you can find out, via either man or rpm -qi package vvhat they do and decide if you think they should be removed or not.
As for GNOME, gdm is the session manager, so is most likely asking for the passvvord for the user You can’t run both GNOME and KDE together, as their sessions conflict, but you should stili be able to run GNOME applications from the command line in KDE, or vice-versa.
