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
