Hey Barry,
If I was you I'd consider Xubuntu for an all round faster Ubuntu experience.
http://xubuntu.org/ of course.. 8.04 is brilliant. Unfortunately the best way to get it is to do a fresh install, however if you backup your entire home directory including all the hidden folders, you will retain most if not all your settings. Not sure about wireless settings though.. Have a little Google around to find out where they're stored.
I have Adobe Flash and thus Youtube working fine on my Xubuntu laptop, which is 1.6Ghz/512mb RAM.. The hardware is getting old and using the light weight Xubuntu makes the thing so much more usable than before.
To get Adobe Flash and many other 'Restricted Formats' install the "xubuntu-restricted-extras" package once the install has finished. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats
-Simon
Barrys linux mail wrote:
Hi I am thinking of upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04 Lts, but not sure if it will work on my laptop which has 380 meg memory and Pent 3 processor, also when I upgraded from 7.06 to 7.10 it lost all the wireless wep settings. How do I avoid this this time if I upgrade? Has anyone upgraded yet? Also see that new version better with utube video, which seems to broken on my system know even though it did work. something to do with Adobe flash !
Barry
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