On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:56:36PM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
At Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:31:44 +0000, Chris G wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 08:45:55PM +0000, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi.
I have been running Puppy Linux on my ThinkPad 600 for a few days. It is the best distro I have tried on it in terms of speed, but it is a little limited. The software repositories are small and getting sound to work is a pain.
It is a 300Mhz ThinkPad 600 and at present it only has 160MB of RAM. When I first got it, I wanted to run some kind of *buntu distro. I know Ubuntu probably will never run on it, so I was looking around at lighter versions.
I ran Crunchbang for a little while, but even that struggled.
Would adding another 128MB of RAM make a lot of difference or is it more of the processor speed that is making this machine slow?
The hard drive in it is a 4200RPM drive, would upping it to 5400 or 7200RPM drive make any difference? It did in an Apple PowerBook I had about a year ago.
Would Xubuntu run comfortable on a 300Mhz with 288MB of RAM?
What would your advice be. What do you lot recommend. I don't have any money to buy a new laptop so I need to get as much out of this as I can.
I have eeebuntu running on an old EEEPC and its fine in general.
How about trying the Ubuntu netbook remix, well supported as a mainstream Ubuntu release, see http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/unr etc.
But the Ubuntu Netbook Remix isn't optimised for old hardware. It's just an alternative to the normal GNOME configuration and optimised for small screens.
... and not very whizzy processors. OK, it's not *specifically* for slow hardware but the original EEEPC is hardly a speed freak and it runs fine on there.