<quote who="Ben"> > Looking for a distro that does web browsing really well with the > following specs (or a way to make Ubuntu behave). > > I have a Celeron ~1.6GHz machine, 512MiB RAM, 80GB HDD. > > Ubuntu 8.04 and now 8.10 both grind almost to a halt when Firefox is > running. (I think 8.10 is actually worse). There is plenty of free > memory - 200+ > Happens with one window open or with many. Other browsers are no > better - tried Opera, same issues. > > CPU just hits 100% and just grinds away.
Is it Firefox or X chugging on the CPU (check top)? What kind of video card and driver are you using? Firefox should be fine on a slowish machine with lots of RAM (512MB is fine). - Jeff -- OSDC 2008: Sydney, Australia http://www.osdc.com.au/2008/ "If you want to start a debate on a subject, however, all that seems to be necessary is to involve perennial target Richard Gooch." - LWN -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
