[wellylug] Installing Ubuntu on older PC

John Durham john.modec at xtra.co.nz
Mon Jun 23 16:04:07 NZST 2008


Rob Collins wrote:
> John Durham wrote:
>> Rob Collins wrote:
>>  
>>> John Durham wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Thanks, but I'm in Upper Hutt. Could arrange a trip if required.
>>>>         
>>> Not too sure how keen you are on the Gnome based Ubuntu but if you're 
>>> keen on a lower resource demanding system while still getting the 
>>> benefits of the Ubuntu base, you might want to try Xubuntu which has 
>>> the Ubuntu base system but uses the much lower demand Xfce desktop . 
>>> . . http://www.xubuntu.org/
>>>     
>> If I understand you correctly, this is a GUI with low resource usage? 
>> If so, that would be interesting.
>>   
> I'm no linux wiz but that's about the sum and total of it.  Xubuntu team 
> also try and make low resource hungry productivity applications the 
> defaults too, where practical.  I once had Xubuntu Dapper Drake running 
> on a 15yr old laptop no problems.  Remember though Xfce is not to 
> everybody's taste as it behaves in slightly different manner to Gnome so 
> might be good idea to try live before installing.
Thanks for the caution. In this case it probably won't matter much. The 
owner couldn't do anything with it and decided to give it away. That 
leaves me with a test machine now that the hardware goes.
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