Bingo........... I will try Fedora for the rest of the week....
Thanks to everyone who responded.. This is a great list!!!! Marvin On 3/9/10, Bruce <[email protected]> wrote: > Marvin Kosmal wrote: >> 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 >> > Fedora 12 is solid. I ran it for a while and liked it. I could switch > to Fedora if Kubuntu became a problem. Give it a try. You can always > switch to something else at the clinic. > > Bruce > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
