bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
Anyone else have a similar experience?
Well, it takes about a minute to start here, but this machine is considerably slower than yours, so I think you've got a problem. Does "free" show all your memory? Does hdparm show DMA enabled on your disks? If you run openoffice from an xterm-like, do you get any errors on it, especially about network things?
MJR