Old Celeron Lappy

[WolfLust]

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).

[lemuriaX]

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

[WolfLust]

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

[lemuriaX]

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

http://crunchbanglinux.org/

[WolfLust]

Looks brilliant, thanks a lot.

Are you located in Lebanon?

[lemuriaX]

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.