I doubt you'd find 2gb in a pentium 4. I'll install Lubuntu or Xubuntu and see how that goes.
On 31 May 2014 21:31, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31 May 2014 21:16, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: > > This Thunderbird issue is doing my head in! It now tells me I have emails > > that don't exist! I suppose asking it to run Ubuntu could be taxing the > > hardware and causing an overheat. I'll take a look tomorrow. > > I have just looked back and realised this is the thread about the old > PC, I don't think we know yet how much RAM it has, crashing could be > caused by not enough. If less than 1GB then no hope of running Unity > I think, ideally at least 2GB. > > Colin > > > > > > > On 31 May 2014 21:11, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On 31 May 2014 08:44, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Sorry for the late reply guys. For some reason as yet unexplained > >> > Thunderbird decided to tell me I had unread emails but wouldn't > display > >> > them! It's not running slowly at all, it just freezes at random points > >> > forcing you to power-cycle. I will be taking another look at it later > on > >> > today. I may try a re-install with one of the other flavours, we'll > see. > >> > >> Do you mean that the machine is absolutely frozen? No mouse, > >> Ctrl+Alt+F1 does nothing, etc? > >> Have a look in /var/log/syslog to see if there are any messages before > >> the freeze. > >> If nothing there then it could well be a hardware issue, overheating > >> possibly, or PSU for example. Try booting into memtest and leave it > >> running for a few hours and see if it freezes then or shows errors. > >> > >> Colin > >> > >> > > >> > > >> > On 30 May 2014 15:47, Pete Smout <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On May 30, 2014 9:57 AM, "George DiceGeorge" <[email protected] > > > >> >> wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > as its an older machine try xubuntu? > >> >> > http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/ > >> >> > [g] > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > -----Original Message----- From: Gareth France Sent: Friday, 30 > May, > >> >> > 2014 07:07 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Constant > crashing > >> >> > I recently installed Ubuntu on a friends computer as it was running > >> >> > painfully slowly with Windows. It is an older machine and > xxxxxxxxxx > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > -- > >> >> > [email protected] > >> >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > >> >> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >> >> > >> >> Hi, > >> >> > >> >> On that age of machine I would consider lubuntu or xubuntu or even > >> >> crunchbang (not a *buntu but Debian based lightweight Openbox os, > hope > >> >> I > >> >> don't break any list rules straying from *buntus) > >> >> > >> >> Also look at how much RAM the machine has, it can be picked up for a > >> >> few > >> >> pounds now ! > >> >> > >> >> Regards > >> >> > >> >> Pete S > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> [email protected] > >> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > [email protected] > >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > >> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > > > > > -- > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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