[!!] Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk

[Liam Proven]

On 23 May 2011 16:39, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 05/23/2011 10:43 PM, JARA MELAGRANI, Mariano wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to give Lubuntu a go. If that PC allows it, I'll switch to it;
>> I'd rather stay under *buntu's roof-umbrella.
>
>
> You might also try to give Bodhi Linux a go. It's very much less resource
> hungry than even Lubuntu and I find it much more stable and updates don't
> break things, but that's saying Lubuntu's updates do break things, sometimes
> seriously, maybe the developers are more capable.
>
> However, it is much more modifiable (even more than kde), with many options
> for lots of things (which I like) but that makes it also more difficult to
> learn and get used to.
>
> It's the fastest 'full-ranged' distro I've used and I have it on a 2GB thumb
> and also my default 'iso-booting' distro (also on thumb). It uses the E17
> enlightenment gui. You can make it look like gnome, kde, mac or whatever you
> like, maybe your own arrangements that nobody thought about.
>
> So, something to think about.

True, Bodhi doesn't want much RAM, but it is quite hungry for CPU and
graphics power. I tried it on the aforementioned 320MB machine (an IBM
Thinkpad with a 700MHz Pentium-III) and it took an age to boot and the
graphics were broken, sluggish and hesitant. Even on a much newer
Thinkpad (1GB RAM, Pentium-M 1.6GHz), because the graphics adaptor
didn't have hardware 3D, it was sluggish.

The niche for Bodhi, if it has one other than being something a bit
different (which is a good thing in and of itself, I feel) is that it
is a good fit for a relatively powerful machine with decent graphics
but with little RAM.

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