Slow disks [Was: UBuntu on older machines ?]

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Vincent Trouilliez">

> I didn't have problems with memory foot-print, I put 256MB on the board,
> plenty enough for Ubuntu/Gnome. Problem as Jeff pointed out is slow disk
> and slow RAM.

Have you considered running the system completely over NFS? It is often
faster to use a 100mbit network card, a fast server, and your whole system
running on NFS than running on a slow disk. I do this at home with my very
old SparcStation 10 machine.

- Jeff

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