[GLLUG] General Question

[Jordan Robison]

Troy,

I always suggest Crunchbang for any older llaptops or netbook. I would
recommend looking in to that. It's fast and really light weight.



On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Troy <w8tcc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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Jordan Robison
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