[wellylug] That slow .. Pitone Installfest .. Dell laptop ..

[Jethro Carr]

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 14:26 +1300, afb at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Jethro, I noticed that Xubuntu (~600MB) was running slowly on
> the old Dell laptop at the InstallFest, with fuzzy resolution. A
> better alternative might be Aquamorph
> <http://aquariusoft.org/page/linux/> (~300MB), also Gtk based, which 
> gives much the same functionality. It is a derivative of the Morphix
> Project by Alex Landengraaf
> <http://www.morphix.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=59>
> who produced some of the first modular Debian based live CD's. He has
> since been involved with ubuntu, and probably xubuntu, but his original
> distro - updated 9/9/2006 - is a lot lighter on resources.
>  
> 
> I don't know if anyone has the owners contact details, but he might be
> following this list.

cheers Adam,

I saw the owner at last night's meeting, and it's running well for him
now.

(it was running off live CD at the fest)

-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 191 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.wellylug.org.nz/pipermail/wellylug/attachments/20061010/93b73fab/attachment.pgp