Thinking about downgrading

[Bob Jonkman]

Have you considered one of the "small footprint" distributions?  At the
last KWLUG meeting Paul Nijjar did his presentation (on GNU Screen)
using a LUbuntu distro.  I'd never heard of it, but it seemed pretty
snappy, considering the vintage of his laptop...

http://lubuntu.net/


--Bob.


On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 17:05 -0700, Victor Mendonça wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> I have actually never upgraded, I always do a fresh install. The only difference is that last install I think I kept my /home part. 
> 
> I'm still not sure what the problem is. It seems that X is dragging, and having Firefox open only makes it worse. I just haven't had the time to troubleshoot it really. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  
> Victor Mendonça
> http://wazem.org/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Phil Woodland <phil.woodland at gmail.com>
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Fri, June 11, 2010 7:44:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Thinking about downgrading
> 
> On Friday, June 11, 2010 07:21:54 pm Victor Mendonça wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I just wanted to get a feel on what you guys would think about this.
> > 
> > Right now I have 9.10 isntalled on my main computer (6 years old laptop
> > Inspiron 1300 with 2GB RAM), which is painfully slow (and I mean really
> > slow). I don't have any effects enabled and don't really need to; I like
> > speed and stabiliy. The problem is that since 7.10, all new releases of
> > Ubuntu seemed sluggish on this computer. It seems that everytime I upgrade
> > it only gets worse. So I was thinking of installing 7.10, which worked
> > without a problem.
> > 
> > Any feedback is more than welcome!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > 
> > Victor Mendonça
> > http://wazem.org/
> 
> Victor,
> 
> An Inspiron 1300 (especially with 2GB ram), shouldn't have much trouble with 
> the latest Ubuntu. 
> 
> My impression is that you have been upgrading since 7.10 and have now reached 
> 9.10? In other words, you haven't done a fresh install, but have solely been 
> upgrading via aptitude (or "sudo do-release-upgrade" etc.)?
> 
> If that is the case, I would suggest doing a fresh install of the latest 
> Ubuntu and see if your performance issues persist (obviously after backing up 
> all your data as you would have downgrading). I would like to think that the 
> advances in the kernel since 7.10, far out-weigh the added overhead from the 
> 9.10 software release.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> Cheers
> 
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