On 25/06/15 10:41, Simon Greenwood wrote:
I came across PeppermintOS[1] recently, which is an LXDE based distribution but a nicely designed one that replaces Firefox with Chromium and has an inbuilt system for Chrome app integration. I'm running it on a four year old Lenovo AMD netbook which was starting to struggle with Xubuntu and it's increased its battery life if nothing else.
That's interesting! My old pentium 4 has only 256 Mb ram. I'm going to try some old dimm cards to see if any are compatible - Mate and most other lightweights need at least 500 Mb - but Peppermint seems to be able to work with the 256 Mb that the machine already has. I'll give it a try.
I'm in the process of installing Mate on the other machine - it doesn't crash if I don't add nomodeset to the boot parameters. That's quite something.
Regards, Barry. -- http://barrydrake.co.nr/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
