Thinking about downgrading

[Brett Alton]

I would go with an LTS version like 8.04 Hardy Heron[1] or 10.04 Lucid
Lynx[2]. If those are too slow, why not try Xubuntu[3][4]?

Why LTS? Well if you look at the chart I made in Wikipedia[5], you'll
see just how long each release is supported for. So make sure to plan
how long you'd like to wait until you have to upgrade again,
especially if using 8.04 Hardy Heron. Don't use 6.06 Dapper Drake,
it's far too old and only updated for the server, not the desktop. For
instance, 8.04 Dapper Drake, although an LTS release, will only be
supported on the desktop until April 2011, so less than a year away.
Lastly, if you're extremely worried about performance, don't forget
about the unofficial Lubuntu[6]

[1] http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04.4/
[2] http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/
[3] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/8.04.1/release/
[4] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/10.04/release/
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases#Version_timeline
[6] http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-10.04.iso

2010/6/11 Victor Mendonça <victorbrca at yahoo.ca>:
> 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/
>
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