<div dir="ltr">I doubt you'd find 2gb in a pentium 4. I'll install Lubuntu or Xubuntu and see how that goes.</div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 31 May 2014 21:31, Colin Law <<a href="mailto:clanlaw@gmail.com" target="_blank">clanlaw@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 31 May 2014 21:16, Gareth France <<a href="mailto:gareth.france@gmail.com">gareth.france@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > This Thunderbird issue is doing my head in! It now tells me I have emails > that don't exist! I suppose asking it to run Ubuntu could be taxing the > hardware and causing an overheat. I'll take a look tomorrow. </div>I have just looked back and realised this is the thread about the old PC, I don't think we know yet how much RAM it has, crashing could be caused by not enough. If less than 1GB then no hope of running Unity I think, ideally at least 2GB. Colin <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> > > > On 31 May 2014 21:11, Colin Law <<a href="mailto:clanlaw@gmail.com">clanlaw@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> On 31 May 2014 08:44, Gareth France <<a href="mailto:gareth.france@gmail.com">gareth.france@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> > Sorry for the late reply guys. For some reason as yet unexplained >> > Thunderbird decided to tell me I had unread emails but wouldn't display >> > them! It's not running slowly at all, it just freezes at random points >> > forcing you to power-cycle. I will be taking another look at it later on >> > today. I may try a re-install with one of the other flavours, we'll see. >> >> Do you mean that the machine is absolutely frozen? No mouse, >> Ctrl+Alt+F1 does nothing, etc? >> Have a look in /var/log/syslog to see if there are any messages before >> the freeze. >> If nothing there then it could well be a hardware issue, overheating >> possibly, or PSU for example. Try booting into memtest and leave it >> running for a few hours and see if it freezes then or shows errors. >> >> Colin >> >> > >> > >> > On 30 May 2014 15:47, Pete Smout <<a href="mailto:smoutpete@gmail.com">smoutpete@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On May 30, 2014 9:57 AM, "George DiceGeorge" <<a href="mailto:dicegeorge@hotmail.com">dicegeorge@hotmail.com</a>> >> >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > as its an older machine try xubuntu? >> >> > <a href="http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/" target="_blank">http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/</a> >> >> > [g] >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -----Original Message----- From: Gareth France Sent: Friday, 30 May, >> >> > 2014 07:07 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing >> >> > I recently installed Ubuntu on a friends computer as it was running >> >> > painfully slowly with Windows. It is an older machine and xxxxxxxxxx >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> >> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> >> >> > <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> On that age of machine I would consider lubuntu or xubuntu or even >> >> crunchbang (not a *buntu but Debian based lightweight Openbox os, hope >> >> I >> >> don't break any list rules straying from *buntus) >> >> >> >> Also look at how much RAM the machine has, it can be picked up for a >> >> few >> >> pounds now ! >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> >> >> Pete S >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> >> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> >> >> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> >> > <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> >> > >> >> -- >> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> >> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> > > > > -- > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> > <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> > -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>