Is it a good idea to have UNR on D600?

[fremantle]

So forum, i have an old Dell D600

512 mb RAM, 40 gigs HDD, 32mb video, 1.2 ghz intel 32bit

I previously had 9.10, it worked pretty good except got laggy and froze when running several programs at once. Lucid Lynx BETA 1 sound doesn't even work. So i just checked netbook remix 9.10 which seems to be pretty good and similar in functionalities, and might fasten up D600,

I just wana know if UNR works on D600, specially the wireless, grafix, sound and performance.

[wilee-nilee]

Should run, try it with a live Cd first, or a thumb if it will boot from one. I have a older inspiron 4100 1 gig chip 512 ram and the only problems are the video card is outdated, so the popups in the right corner show as a black square in Lucid but okay in Karmic. I would check the video cards compatibility in the end.

[fremantle]

lucid didnt work on mine as well. for the beta version, its pretty buggy. One problem i have is with firefox, sometimes when a page is loading, it gets frozen and i have to force quit. And the sound worked for the first 1-2 hours then just disappeared. pretty funny.

[crlang13]

I'm pretty sure if 9.10 worked fine (save the lag that you mentioned) UNR 9.10 will work as well. They're basically the same thing, UNR is just stripped back a bit and with a different UI.

But, as the others said, try booting from a thumb drive first.

[fremantle]

okk

[mikewhatever]

I very much doubt you'll get better performance with UNR. You could try Ubuntu with LXDE, or simply a more light weight distro, even Ubuntu's parent, Debian.