Chris G wrote:
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.
The Atom and Via chips in netbooks are still a great deal faster than a 300mhz Mobile PII machine, as is the rest of the system. Remember we have 66mhz bus speeds here, and the underlying gnome will have no room at all to breathe in 160MB of ram.
Also I seem to recall that the UNR task browser interface (which is after all pretty much the only difference between UNR and vanilla Ubuntu) pretty much requires hardware accelerated 3D on a compiz compatible chipset. Or at least runs very very slowly without it.
I'll stand with Richard on this one UNR would be a perfectly horrible experience on this machine, assuming it ran at all.