Xubuntu on 1999 Dell PIII 450mhz and 128 megs ram; not enough

[Sy Ali]

On 4/28/07, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   Although I may be considered a Gentoo fanboi by some, I did try
> Xubuntu last week.  It wasn't on my main machine, but on my old 1999
> Dell.  The install was excruciatingly slow.  Once installed, Xubuntu was
> only painfully slow.

My previous desktop was Slackware running X with blackbox.  It *flew*.

That's a p2 266 with 96 megs of ram, and to be honest.. the last 32
was thrown in with zero benefit.

Surfing while ripping while encoding three mp3s while listening to
music which doesn't skip.  No problem.  Well.. firefox is dog slow.
But that's "normal".


My current desktop, PCLinuxOS has shown some interest in the entire
light desktop thing, including a "business" distribution or SAM linux,
both using xfce.  Those aside, there will be the official "MiniME"
which will be stripped down and will always fit on a CD and "TinyME"
which apparently won't even have X.

Handy, seeing as the main distriribution will go to a LiveDVD next.

I'm going to be enjoying goofing around with my old computers as test
boxes again..
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