<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> I have an Asus EeePC from a few years ago which still runs well. I was using PinguyOS (based on Ubuntu and Mint) but that became quite out of date and I did not like the newer versions (but was never too slow). So I decided to install Linux Lite which is based on Ubuntu, using version 14.04 so it has an up-to-date kernel and software. Nothing fancy, but it works smoothly on my netbook, even with Cairo Dock installed and a few tabs open in Firefox, plus running LibreOffice Writer and a couple of other small apps at the same time. Not had a problem with it at all, so maybe you just need to install a new distro. It has a CPU speed of 1.6 GHz and 1 GB of RAM so similar specs to your Samsung. David King <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/10/14 15:25, Barry Drake wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:54300356.6080101@gmx.com" type="cite">Hi there ..... I just got back after some time away using my netbook. It is a Samsung N150 currently running Lubuntu 14.04 as it had become far too slow on recent Ubuntu releases. I want to upgrade to something faster that can run Ubuntu 14.10 at a fair speed. The thing is, I don't want to go much larger in physical size. 10" or so is ideal for me. I tried an Android tablet, but really prefer the netbook. I could get by with a tablet running Ubuntu if there were such a thing, but I can't understand why netbooks are now in a minority. I could possibly go for a low-end Windows netbook if I knew for certain that it was fully compatible with Ubuntu. Obviously I prefer not to pay for an OS that I'm going to wipe! Any thoughts or suggestions? I don't do gaming - I just want something that will do e-mails, internet and documents. I use cloud sync for documents and I keep Thunderbird and Firefox in sync with my desktop. Kind regards, Barry. </blockquote> </body> </html>