[GLLUG] General Question

[Troy]

Thanks fellas, I tried Xubuntu and it seems to deal with the laptop a lot better than Ubuntu. It is the same version, 12.04, with a different desktop. I think I will max out the 1 gig and maybe later try a larger set of mem. modules. I need a good computer up at the lake and this will probably do. Thank you again for the support.

Is it the bios that sets the mem. constraint, and of so can a bios be flashed? Just a thought.

Thanks, Troy 

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On Sep 7, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you want to stick with the "Ubuntu experience" but wring as much performance out of it as possible, you should try Bodhi Linux.  It's based on Ubuntu but it's stripped down so that their minimum RAM requirement is 128MB.  (I forget what CPU they specify as minimum.) However, while it does run pretty well on my P3 laptop with 192MB of RAM, sometimes it bogs down, like when I try to run Synaptic and Midori (a lightweight web browser) at the same time.
> 
> 
>                               Chick
> 
> On 09/06/2012 12:12 PM, Charles Ulrich wrote:
>> You can also try a more lightweight distribution (such as Xubuntu) to
>> make things feel a little speedier.
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