I was using ubuntu on a Pentium pro -200mhz, 64 Mb Ram, but not running gnome, started off with just the minimal install (i think they call it server), my experiences were similar to Richard's. ie: Slow to boot and firefox runs really slowly. Although firefox performance is comparable to other distros i've tried on it, booting is the major let down on it.
Other than that, everything worked fine with it. Although I installed it over a year ago, so my experience may be a bit out of date.
Rob.
On 21/01/06, Richard Brooklyn ribs@riblet.plus.com wrote:
I have a old Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop running Ubuntu. It's got a PII 300mhz CPU and 256MB of Ram and a very slow 6gb HD.
Ubuntu is painfully slow on this system. It takes a while to boot, and even once firefox is eventually loaded, it's slow to navigate pages. Dapper may help in this regard, as it'll have Firefox 1.5 which is quicker, and the next release of Gnome should have much lower memory requirements which may help.
I use a networking card I brought from http://openforeveryone.co.uk/perifs3.php?id=12. This card works well, it's plug and play with Ubuntu, once installed, but Ubuntu is unable to find the card during installation (not a major issue really, network repos will just be disabled by default). Next version (Dapper) of Ubuntu *should* support Centrino via a newer kernel.
Hope this helps.
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