10.04 too heavy for my hardware

[Madhurya Kakati]

On 5/25/2010 9:50 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> I finally succeeded in installing (clean) 10.04 on my notePC, but it
> runs uncomfortably slow
> Hardware:
> description: Notebook
> product: HP nx9005 (DR582P)
> version: KAM1.49 -> upgraded the BIOS already to the newest available
> version
> description: CPU
> product: mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP2200+ (should ideally run at 1.8 GHz)
> *-memory
> description: System Memory
> size: 768MiB
>
> Is there maybe something that takes up a lot of resources, but which can
> be turned off and thereby
> make it run more smoothly?
> Or should I just forget about it and go back to older software? (9.04
> did work acceptably)
> Or should I try maybe some other (preferrably light-weigth) version of
> Linux?
> If so, are there any recommendations?
>
> Thank you.
>
>   
You can try xubuntu or the ubuntu netbook remix.