<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Robert Holtzman <<a href="mailto:holtzm@cox.net">holtzm@cox.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Just installed Jaunty on my Dell Latitude (1.8 GB Pentium, 1 GB RAM) and can't believe how slow it is. 3-5 second delay between clicking to expand xterm and when it expands, 2 second delay when using the up or down arrows to scroll, Mutt so slow responding to commands that at times I think it's frozen and have to bail out, even Alpine has a noticeable hesitation. Scrolling with the mouse wheel or the scroll bar is jerky and skips with the previously mentioned delay. Has anyone else experienced this or is the Holtzman Luck rearing it's head again? </blockquote><div> I have been using Ubuntu on my Dell Latitude D630 (with 1 GB RAM) since Ubuntu 7.10. I have had no issues with it, even with Compiz 3D enabled. Make sure you allocate a fair about of Swap space, say about 1 GB (although IIRC, anything about 512 MB and the Swap space is mostly redundant.) Also, like suggested you could try Xubuntu, or just install a lighter Windowing environment like Fluxbox. However, I do not think this is an issue of insufficient RAM or CPU. I suspect something else has gone astray. Thanks, Raseel </div></div>