Re: [tlug] Ubuntu on just 256 MB?

[Andreas Kieckens <akieckens@example.com>]

 I second puppy linux. I put it on my aunt's old Intel 900Mhz w/ 128 
ram and it ran at a very reasonable speed. My only beef with it is that 
you're constantly logged in as root.

On 09/25/2010 10:57 PM, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> Swap? I installed netbook Ubuntu and it never asked for any swap
> settings. Right now it's really slow, unusably so and it might very
> well have to do with swap as the disk is constantly spinning. I was
> able to get a terminal up and see that the load average was 5 while
> the CPU usage was about 5% ...
>
> Unfortunately I stopped the update manager half-way through and seem
> to have ruined my installation.
>
> Jc
>
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:39 PM,<mariod410@example.com>  wrote:
> > How do you have your swap set up?
> >
> > Sent from my shiny
> >
> >
> > On Sep 25, 2010, at 22:24, Jean-Christian Imbeault<jc.imbeault@example.com>  wrote:
> >
> > > If I read the Japanese spec page correctly this Vaio can only go up to 768 Mb.
> > >
> > > http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/VGN-T70B/
> > >
> > > I'd be nice to hear but gosh-darn-it ... the reason I'm trying to
> > > install Linux is that her Windows is just god-awful slow ... I told
> > > her I could install Linux and it would be nice and speedy. Now it's
> > > even worse than her Windows XP was. I'd hate to come away from this
> > > thinking that Windows is actually better in some cases.
> > >
> > > There's gotta a be a Linux version I can give her to replace XP that
> > > runs well on low memory. There just has to be :)
> > >
> > > Jc
> > >
> > > PS Shawn that link you gave is broken. Mind sending it again?
> > >
> > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Shawn Brown
> > > <big.coffee.lover@example.com>  wrote:
> > > > >   I bet you can even get 1GB into that machine for not that
> > > > > much money.
> > > > Yeah, be nice to the dear girl.
> > > >
> > > > It's another slot for and additional 1GB doesn't it?
> > > >
> > > > tech.com/sony-notebook-memory-sony-vaio-vgn-t-series-memory-sony-vaio-vgn-t70b-l-memory.html
> > > >
> > > > Shawn
> > > >
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