On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 06:43:04 -0700, linuxamin wrote:

> hello everybody,
>
> I recently installed Fedora core 3, this distro really fits my needs
> and I am quite happy with it .... but not totally. Actually I have
> noticed some strange behaviors from the system. First of all, I have
> configured grub to boot windows by default as I am not the only one to
> use the PC (linux is sometimes worrisome for users who are not very at
> ease with PC technology) but after one or two rebooting now it is linux
> that boots by default.
> Second, gdm chooses randomly my desktop environment, sometimes it's
> failsafe, sometimes it's KDE and never xfce that I like to use, I am
> obliged to specify explicitly which environment I want to use for every
> session.
> Fianlly, I have noticed a performance decrease in by day day use,
> openoffice and firefox now take a long long load time (nevertheless I
> disabled all useless daemons and I tuned my hard disk performance using
> hdparm) and sometimes freeze for long seconds.
> I have tried a lot of distros and I really like fedora and would like
> to use it exclusively. Can somebody explain what is the problem with my
> distro or my PC and how to fix it ?
>
> thanks a lot, bye

Your'e Welcome, bye
> PS: it's been a long time that I didn't use Linux because a few months
> ago I had no PC, I somehow lost some linux skills that I used to have,
> so please excuse me.

You are excused!