[xubuntu-users] Is there a list for *ABSOLUTE* beginners with Xubuntu?

[George DiceGeorge]

with only 256 mb ram there will be lots of swapping data from RAM to hard 
disk which takes ages - I keep an eye on the little green light which shows 
processor usage, and only click when the light has stopped flashing - or 
else everything freezes up.
[george]


-----Original Message----- 
From: Pasi Lallinaho
Sent: Sunday, 08 September, 2013 16:05
To: Xubuntu Support and User Discussions
Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there a list for *ABSOLUTE* beginners with 
Xubuntu?

On 08/09/13 16:44, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 09/08/2013 10:42 AM, David Walland wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I've been watching and reading all your input and am beginning to
>> suspect that some of you think that there is a problem with the
>> Xubuntu on my old laptop.  I have to say that I doubt that.  I can
>> *use* parts of it.
>
> It sounds as if the operating system itself is working fine.
>
>> I can write letters etc in Open Office, even if I can't work out why
>> I can't replace it with Office Libre.
>
> What happens if you use Synaptic to delete OpenOffice entirely,
> and then install Libre Office entirely?
>
> Oh wait...Libre Office probably isn't in the 10.04 repositories. Can you
> download it from their web site at http://www.libreoffice.org/download
> into /tmp (at least the main one, which is 154Mb of .tar.gz file).
> Unwrap it with tar zxvf filename.tar.gz and then install it with
> gdebi *.deb (if gdebi isn't installed in 10.04, install that first).

LibreOffice is basically OpenOffice. If you are running an older system
with only OpenOffice in the repositories, I'd suggest keeping with that
and not trying to install LibreOffice.

>> The things I can't do are almost certainly there for the doing, if
>> only I knew enough to ask the right question or look in the right
>> place.
>
> I think you're asking the right questions in the right place, but I
> suspect that the machine is having problems with memory. It simply
> doesn't have enough.

I would imagine Xubuntu would be slow with 256MB memory, but then again
you are running an older version and ultimately, slow is subjective.
It's possible that certain applications won't be able to run with that
amount of memory though, so take that into consideration.

> *snip*

And for what comes to the original question in the mail title: this *is*
the list you are looking for. Welcome!

Yt,
Pasi

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