Rucas
May 8th, 2008, 07:26 PM
Hi all, im hopping to get some help so that i may carry on enjoying my Ubuntu.
Anyhowz here are the issues.
I have Ubuntu on 2 machines, a Toshiba Satelite A30 laptop with 512mb ram, 30gig hdd and its a Intel Celleron clocking @ 2ghz. The other is a project made Desktop machine now pushing retirement, lol... Also very similar specs but more HDD.
The Laptop:
Ubuntu Gutsy run rather well on it, in fact all devices worked perfectly, and the system was pretty happy. I Upgraded via the online option to 8.04 and now have a serious problem where the laptop will not even start up at times, takes a really long time to start up when eventually it does, and it really is feeling slower in performance and such.
I dont have Compiz or any fancy graphics stuff enabled, and the HDD is about half empty.
My questions:
Are there any System Managememnt Tools in Linux(Ubuntu) like a Disk Defrager, or a Permissions Repair or anything that fine tunes the machine when it starts feeling slow and slugish? Or any Terminal commands?
Also i would prefer to not have to downgrade from 8.04, i like the new additions, just really wanted a better performance.
Lastly is it maybe better to Upgrade by doing a fresh install from the CD instead of upgrade?
Many thanks in advance...
Anyhowz here are the issues.
I have Ubuntu on 2 machines, a Toshiba Satelite A30 laptop with 512mb ram, 30gig hdd and its a Intel Celleron clocking @ 2ghz. The other is a project made Desktop machine now pushing retirement, lol... Also very similar specs but more HDD.
The Laptop:
Ubuntu Gutsy run rather well on it, in fact all devices worked perfectly, and the system was pretty happy. I Upgraded via the online option to 8.04 and now have a serious problem where the laptop will not even start up at times, takes a really long time to start up when eventually it does, and it really is feeling slower in performance and such.
I dont have Compiz or any fancy graphics stuff enabled, and the HDD is about half empty.
My questions:
Are there any System Managememnt Tools in Linux(Ubuntu) like a Disk Defrager, or a Permissions Repair or anything that fine tunes the machine when it starts feeling slow and slugish? Or any Terminal commands?
Also i would prefer to not have to downgrade from 8.04, i like the new additions, just really wanted a better performance.
Lastly is it maybe better to Upgrade by doing a fresh install from the CD instead of upgrade?
Many thanks in advance...