[ubuntu-uk] Dell Inspiron Mini 10v

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just installed Xubuntu Lucid beta 2 on an old Pentium III (700MHz,
> 384MB RAM, 8.8GB HDD) and it absolutely flies. Windows 2000 that was
> running (or rather crawling) on it until last night would take 1/2 hour
> to boot and would be very painful to use. Xubuntu takes 1 minute and 30
> seconds to go from "on" to fully logged in with Wi-Fi connected and
> makes it a very usable machine: great for web browsing, listening to
> music or using the occasional spreadsheet.

To be fair, if you wiped & reinstalled the machine with a fresh clean
copy of Windows 2000, I bet it would fly as well. Of course, then it
needs patching up to date, followed by a visit to the very handy
www.ninite.com to install anti-malware & a bunch of useful apps. So
it's hours more work than with *buntu & of course you need a copy of
Windows & a licence.

But it's not solely a magic property of *buntu, handy as it is. Taking
any old PC, formatting its disks & reinstalling it afresh with a
suitable copy of its original OS or something not too much newer will
always give it a huge new lease of life.

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