A Carafe of Ubuntu
I have a Clamshell g3 iBook, wich I bought from a friend. It came with Mac OS 9, and only has 3GB of storage, which sucks, but it runs Xubuntu just fine, even with the transparency effects stuff, and I only upgraded its RAM from 128 to 256 megs. It's Awsome
First Cup of Ubuntu
Jgrapham ...good luck!
With DSL i had to mess around a lot with sound, usually got it working but it was tough.
Ubuntu can be slow, and bloated and it doesn´t include ndiswrapper or any codecs, but it´s stable and it has dang good hardware detection. And there are many many forums threads and ubuntu wiki articles on getting sound to work so I´m hoping you´ll be ok
Tea Glorious Tea!
Thanks, no sound (despite editing three files like some web page told me too) and now the programme which makes my USB modem work wont start! oh well, back to my desktop for 3 weeks untill I can be bothered to have a go at it again :] (still, what do you expect from an 8 year old laptop)Originally Posted by byrdmeln
Jgrapham ...good luck!
With DSL i had to mess around a lot with sound, usually got it working but it was tough.
Ubuntu can be slow, and bloated and it doesn´t include ndiswrapper or any codecs, but it´s stable and it has dang good hardware detection. And there are many many forums threads and ubuntu wiki articles on getting sound to work so I´m hoping you´ll be ok
A Carafe of Ubuntu
I recently picked up an old Armada 100s Laptop. 550mhz AMD K6 w/ 192mb RAM.
I got it for a song and gave it a new paint job.
I have been installing Ubuntu 7.04 and Automatix for the last 4 hours. Once it is all installed/configued, she'll be a solid little machine.
I am using a PC Card for Ethernet right now. Plan on picking up a cheapo wifi card tomorrow...
Check out the pic. It is much slower than it looks!
Quad Shot of Ubuntu
That's a nice machine. I can imagine how slow it is because my first computer had very similar specs, however it is a desktop. You could boost performance a bit by adding a new hard drive (a 5400RPM drive makes a difference when compared to a 4200RPM).I recently picked up an old Armada 100s Laptop. 550mhz AMD K6 w/ 192mb RAM.
I got it for a song and gave it a new paint job.
I have been installing Ubuntu 7.04 and Automatix for the last 4 hours. Once it is all installed/configued, she'll be a solid little machine.
I am using a PC Card for Ethernet right now. Plan on picking up a cheapo wifi card tomorrow...
Check out the pic. It is much slower than it looks!
Just a suggestion.
Joe.
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Dell Inspiron 2500
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Last edited by Frak; July 18th, 2007 at 06:56 AM.
A Carafe of Ubuntu
You speak the truth! I'll add a new drive eventually. It took me literally 5 hours to get through Ubuntu Install and Automatix (part way thru Automatix that is). I plan to run XFCE, but installed Ubuntu for easier Samba Support.
Quad Shot of Ubuntu
You monitored it! You've got patience. When I installed something 'fancy' to the machine I used to leave it alone and go out for a long while (in that time I didn't have the laptop so I had anything else computer-related to do meanwhile.
Joe.
A Carafe of Ubuntu
Ok, so I definitely want to use GNOME, but what can I disable to gain a little speed?
Quad Shot of Ubuntu
I don't know why but most distros I have tried (Ubuntu included) run useless/unnecessary daemons by default (WTF is a bluetooth daemon doing in my machine when it does not have bluetooth?). You can check in Desktop -> Administration -> Services.
Perhaps XFCE fits well on that lappy though (it is Gnome based but much more lightweight).
Joe.
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