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    Lightbulb Old Celeron Lappy

    I have recently purchased a used Celeron laptop (Dell Inspiron 1100) and installed Ubuntu Desktop 9.04 on it which rendered the usability slow and annoying.

    I suppose GNOME is pretty unfair to such a laptop so I'm going to try installing XUBUNTU 9.04 tonight and see how that goes.

    Any thoughts on the matter? I am pretty certain that with Xfce the laptop should be more usable.

    If you're wondering why anyone with half a brain would purchase such an old laptop, well the answer's pretty simple. It got it for $65 along with a wireless USB adapter. I'll surely find tons of things to do with it (beside playing dos games on it through a dos emulator).

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    Re: Old Celeron Lappy

    I would if possible, get more RAM for it. And maybe build up from a minimal install so you can keep it really lightweight.

    http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/minimal
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...tion/MinimalCD

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    Re: Old Celeron Lappy

    Honestly, I don't care much about this laptop and I doubt I'd upgrade it, I just want to use it for general testing purposes and some web surfing till I get a decent laptop.

    I suppose I'm going to try Xubuntu, and if it is still slow then I'll move to DSL or Puppy for the fun of trying a new distro

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    Re: Old Celeron Lappy

    Crunchbang might be a nice option too, I haven't tried it but have read good things. It's Ubuntu based.

    http://crunchbanglinux.org/

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    Re: Old Celeron Lappy

    Looks brilliant, thanks a lot.

    Are you located in Lebanon?

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    Re: Old Celeron Lappy

    Quote Originally Posted by WolfLust View Post
    Are you located in Lebanon?
    Nope just saw your post -- I tend to always have some old machines around I like to experiment with so is always an interesting topic.

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    Re: Old Celeron Lappy

    I installed Xubuntu but firefox is still eating up all the CPU resources, and firefox crashes when I limit its CPU consumption.

    I'll give DSL 4.4.10 a try today.

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    Re: Old Celeron Lappy

    Hmmm..yeah Firefox can be a bit of a resource hog. Maybe check out this thread:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1193567

    Or could look into running Swiftfox or even Seamonkey.

    DSL is pretty nice especially considering it will run on really low spec hardware -- as is Puppy. Some people really like slitaz, haven't tried that one yet.

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    Re: Old Celeron Lappy

    I tried DSL yesterday, it's the lightest thing I've seen hehehe, I really liked that about it. I'm still having trouble connecting the USB wireless controller though. Will try to solve that issue in a day or two.

    I downloaded Puppy, will check it out asap.

    Brilliant link you've shared, I will try some of the tweaks soon as I really rather stick to Xubuntu.

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