I run Xubuntu on a couple of machines. I think it would be a big load for a
600, as it has a fairly heavy desktop manager. Lubuntu might be better, as
LXDE has a much lighter load, though it is not as mature a product as
Xubuntu.
David
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From: "Simon Royal" <simonro...@live.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:45 AM
To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Subject: [Thinkpad] Xubuntu... Or Something Else On TP600
Hi.
I have been running Puppy Linux on my ThinkPad 600 for a few days. It is
the best distro I have tried on it in terms of speed, but it is a little
limited. The software repositories are small and getting sound to work is
a pain.
It is a 300Mhz ThinkPad 600 and at present it only has 160MB of RAM. When
I first got it, I wanted to run some kind of *buntu distro. I know Ubuntu
probably will never run on it, so I was looking around at lighter
versions.
I ran Crunchbang for a little while, but even that struggled.
Would adding another 128MB of RAM make a lot of difference or is it more
of the processor speed that is making this machine slow?
The hard drive in it is a 4200RPM drive, would upping it to 5400 or
7200RPM drive make any difference? It did in an Apple PowerBook I had
about a year ago.
Would Xubuntu run comfortable on a 300Mhz with 288MB of RAM?
What would your advice be. What do you lot recommend. I don't have any
money to buy a new laptop so I need to get as much out of this as I can.
Regards
Simon Royal
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