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sudo shutdown -h now every night. That's green IT for dummies.

It is not on an own partition because you chose to install it inside windows.

Read the installation tutorial under dual booting and reinstall on two new partitions. One for / and another for...

But probably the time when there are most readers for the first page is at the same time the time when there are most new posts. This would mean that the post stays the shortest time on the first...

It might not be the goal of Ubuntu, but I suppose Canonical aims to make money. At least a lot of money is needed for 200 employees...

Debian minimal CLI install.

Here is an answer:

http://helmer.sfe.se/

48 GB RAM :-)

Greetings,

Mikko

You might get for free a second used HDD that you could use in addition to the old one. Install Ubuntu or some lightweight distro (e.g. AntiX) on the second HDD and use the old for /home.
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I have two main computers in two different towns :-)

Town 1 (Friday to Sunday): Maybe five years old? Pentium 2.8 GHz & 512 MB running Ubuntu.

Town 2 (Monday to Friday): Maybe ten years old?...

Any distro will run fine at least if you turn compiz etc off.

The difference between openbox and windowmaker is clear once you install windowmaker :-)

Stay away from Xubuntu. Try antiX, Vector, Debian or Slackware. Or some other really lightweight distro. See my signature for more links :-)

Greetings,

Mikko

There was no Ubuntu ten years ago. 4.10 was the first version and it was released in October 2004.

Try antiX or some other lightweight distro (e.g. Vector Linux). See my signature for more info....

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6676512#post6676512

Install Debian instead of Ubuntu :-)

Mikko

Earth will always clear like free markets do?

Greetings,

mikko

Emacs can do anything :-)

mikko

Emacs with reftex and auctex, LaTeX and LyX.

Mikko

See my signature for some ideas :-)

Greetings,

Mikko

For newbie a short answer: it really does not matter. Both are equally good.

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Is the package build-essential installed?

mikko

* Emacs
* LyX

That's only two... :-)

I find the KDE pim package the single reason that makes me slightly prefer KDE to GNOME. But with my older computers I prefer something lightweight like WindowMaker of Pekwm.

Greetings,

mikko

Maybe you should get your sister a computer that has been built in the 21st century? Something with at least 256 Mb RAM would be fine. That laptop just is not going to be newbie friendly with any...

Just about any distro will run on that modern computer. See also my blog from the signature line :-)

Add: http://lightlinux.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-old-is-old-computer.html

mikko