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

[Walter Dnes]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:42:00PM -0400, Sy Ali wrote

> 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.

  Sounds almost like my Dell running Gentoo+blackbox.

> Well.. firefox is dog slow.  But that's "normal".

  "Slow" may be due to webpages with HTML that refuses to display the
page until some overloaded adserver serves out a banner-ad to you<g>.
If you wanted slow, you should've tried beta-testing *MOZILLA* (not
Firefox) 0.90 through 0.95 on a P3.

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