Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on the extremely old desktop?

2015-08-11 Thread Peter Golis
Hello Fritz, did you have desktop or iBook?   Because iBook G4 (2003) with working frequency 933MHz had soldered 256M and it was expandable only by 1G. And Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver 2002) desktop was expandable to 1.5G of RAM. Could you please confirm how was possible to upgrade RAM into 2G in you

Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on the extremely old desktop?

2015-08-11 Thread Fritz Hudnut
@PG: Both. My research shows that my iBook is already maxed at 646MB RAM. The PM 3,1 I upgraded to max 2 GB. F On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Peter Golis wrote: > Hello Fritz, > > did you have desktop or iBook? > > > > Because iBook G4 (2003) with working frequency 933MHz had soldered 256M

Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on the extremely old desktop?

2015-08-11 Thread Peter Golis
Hello Fritz, So, this clarify your issue: Old iBook with 128+512M RAM (same combination as my playbook) cannot handle big JS pages like FB. Most modern web sites eat RAM. Teoretically you can install zram on that system which will enable compression in RAM, but you will not win fight with moder

Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on the extremely old desktop?

2015-08-11 Thread DOS
Peter Golis wrote: Hello Fritz, So, this clarify your issue: Old iBook with 128+512M RAM (same combination as my playbook) cannot handle big JS pages like FB. Most modern web sites eat RAM. Teoretically you can install zram on that system which will enable compression in RAM, but you will n

Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on the extremely old desktop?

2015-08-11 Thread Fritz Hudnut
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Peter Golis wrote: > Old iBook with 128+512M RAM (same combination as my playbook) cannot > handle big JS pages like FB. Most modern web sites eat RAM. Teoretically > you can install zram on that system which will enable compression in RAM, > but you will not win

Re: upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on the extremely old desktop?

2015-08-11 Thread Peter Golis
Hello Fritz, I had asked about hardware model, not about installed OS version (ToriOS is Linux distribution based on Ubuntu). Information about HW model is in /proc/cpuinfo, but on different lines. Line with revision belongs to CPU revision, but HW model is on lines model, machine, motherboard