I have just installed Fedora on an AMD 550 and have found it very slow. Am I doing something wrong or does Fedora require a faster machine. I opened up Networks today and it took about a minute to open up.

Something is wrong and may be easily fixable but it would probably be hard to pin it down if you are not familiar with the system. Unless you can supply better and more specific information, I'd suggest trying different distros until you find one that works well on your hardware as soon as it is installed.

One source of extreme slowness is if your hard drive has DMA disabled. You can check it by doing "hdparm /dev/hda" as root, assuming your Linux drive is the primary master. If you don't see a line like "using_dma = 1 (on)", tell us so we can help fix it.

You're using KDE, aren't you? KDE is slow even on fast machines. Try a different window manager and see if it feels faster. I recommend Blackbox, Enlightenment, or even Gnome.

dma is on. I ran Partition Magic and noticed that there is only 2 partitions and 1 is 100 meg. I have a feeling this may be incorrect.

Is the 100MB partition /boot or swap, maybe? Both of those would be fine on a 100MB partition - although swap would be a bit crowded.

It's probably just the Xwindows enviroment. I'm using a P200mmx with Window Maker(takes up about 1-2 megs of ram when running) as my default window manager/desktop and it is very snappy indeed. Almost as quick as win98 on my P400.