Welcome! I also had an underpowered laptop for a long time. Not to make
this into a support thread, but I would offer using the alternate
install cd and installing the server edition. Then install something
like flubox or jwm or enlightenment, etc.. really any other lightweight
window manger should work. This should allow your system to perform
nicely. In addition, you can try using a lightweight browser.
ISO Testing to make sure the installer works and installs properly is
part of our on-going tasks. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/TasksPrecise
Since the eeePC would have to be booted and installed using usb this
would make an interesting test case for our generated isos. Cheers,
Nicholas
On 01/12/2012 02:36 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Hi,
welcome to QA.
Hmm, if lubuntu is still too big for you I can only suggest you try
lubuntu-core (not lubuntu-desktop) which is the really stripped down
version of lubuntu. Details of the 11.10 series of this can be found
at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall I
am asking our head of dev to find out if the lubuntu-core option is
available for 12.04 yet.
@Julien, is lubuntu-core available for 12.04 yet?
Regards,
Phill.
On 12 January 2012 11:33, Xelsior <xelsio...@gmail.com
<mailto:xelsio...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello,
Just joined the group. I've been a Linux user since the late 90's and
an Ubuntu user since 07. I've contributed to some bug reporting and
pages on the help wiki.
At the moment I have AntiX on my Asus EeePC simply because Ubuntu was
using too much memory. I had problems with Firefox maxing out the
memory and hitting the swap very hard. Swap access is just way too
slow on an Eee 701 with a slow SSD and 512mb of memory. Actually
everything else seems to run fine with an Ubuntu installation ...
except for the memory problem. I tried the other Ubuntu distro's like
Lubuntu but they have the same problem (they are aimed more at the
later Eee's). The general advice is to use a distro like AntiX, but I
don't see why Ubuntu could not have a repository package that strips
everything down - removes unnecessary kernel modules and other memory
and space saving tactics. Don't know if I'm in the right place for
that kind of development but I can do testing (boot on a live Ubuntu
SSD?) and I can help in many other ways.
Barney
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