Live CD SLOooooowww

[John Levin]

On 21 Jun 2005, at 15:36, David Teague wrote:

>
> I recently received Ubuntu Live and Install CDs.
>
> I ran the live CD on my older 500 MHz 512 MB
> RAM machine. I have never seen a system as slow.
> It took a full 2 minutes to load OpenOffice.org writer,
> 1:30 to load Firefox.
>
>

Live cds are much slower than a proper install for a number of  
reasons; speed of cd drive access as compared to hd, having to  
uncompress on the fly (I think).

I have a standard Ubuntu desktop running fine on 500mhz / 128mb  
machine, and the repositories offer plenty of lighter apps/desktops,  
such as Abiword and XFCE.

John

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