On 2/24/10, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Tim wrote: > >> I have to agree. If you're really looking to save money, scale back those >> things hogging resources on your box. This doesn't necessarily require >> switching distributions. (I can't comment on upgrading to later Ubuntu >> versions, though you should consider that.) Switch to a less >> resource-intensive window manager (i.e. not Gnome or KDE based) and try >> out a few different browsers. > > This is why we run xubuntu on my wife's lower-end machines. Also, it > turns > out that seamonkey is more gentle using available resources than are the > separate firefox and thunderchicken. While Xfce is bloating one does not > need to install or use the plethora of toolettes. > >> Adding RAM is always a convenient hack to add life to an aging box and it >> seems nowadays most software on Linux is chewing through RAM like it's >> going out of style, so you probably need it. > > That is, if the particular type of RAM one needs is still available. > Machines don't need to be too old nowadays to find no one's making the RAM > it requires. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
Update on this problem. Bought a new computer... Should come in the mail tomorrow.. Only disk I have is Ubuntu 8.04 Can I install that and then change /etc/apt/sources.list? and install xubuntu?? And do apt-get update apt-get dist upgrade And what would the sources.list look like?? Or did I misunderstand..?????? Or I did get a Fedora 12 disk in the mail today... I could try that???... TIA Marvin _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
