i'm using LFS on my system now... <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eero Tamminen</b> <<a href="mailto:oak@helsinkinet.fi">oak@helsinkinet.fi</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 09:50 -0700, Surajram Kumaravel wrote:<br>> I'm using an old computer and I couldn't use Ubuntu, Kubuntu &<br>> Xubuntu live CDs till Memory was upgraded. I am talking about Ubuntu
<br>> 5.1, Kubuntu 6.xx and Xubuntu 6 (For All these even the Installed<br>> version with 256 MB Swap space is a bit sluggish on my P3 500Mhz<br>> Computer. Suggetions to improve performance will be welcome.<br><br>
How much RAM do you have?<br><br>If you have less than 128MB[1], I would suggest:<br>- Using the (text-only) alternate (X/K/Ubuntu) CD for installing<br> (or using the just released Debian Etch instead of Ubuntu)<br>- Doing server installation
<br>- After the server install finishes, install (with apt-get)<br> xorg, icewm, gdm<br> - at this stage you need to setup X server, you can use<br> e.g. dpkg-reconfigure to redo it. For more speed and<br> less memory usage, set the default display bitdepth to
<br> 16bpp instead of the default 24/32<br>- Then you can do "/etc/init.d/gdm start", configure your new desktop<br> and install more software. I would probably start from installing<br> a graphical package manager and a browser (if using Gtk apps,
<br> Epiphany-browser takes less RAM than Firefox and it uses<br> the same HTML engine as Firefox)<br><br>[1] I might do it even with 128MB of RAM because browsers need<br>nowadays so much RAM that the more is left for them, the better.
<br><br>I just did this with Debian Etch after the Xubuntu Feisty beta<br>live-CD didn't work with old 96MB machine (after taking >1 hour<br>to try to come up), but it should work for Ubuntu too, that doesn't<br>
differ that much from Debian. :-)<br><br><br> - Eero<br><br>PS. For a desktop the server install leaves some things like<br>inetd/portmap/nfs-common into boot which could be removed,<br>see /etc/rc2.d/README. My machine doesn't have Bluetooth so
<br>I removed BT service startups too.<br><br><br><br>--<br>xubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">
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