On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Bruno Girin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just installed Xubuntu Lucid beta 2 on an old Pentium III (700MHz, > 384MB RAM, 8.8GB HDD) and it absolutely flies. Windows 2000 that was > running (or rather crawling) on it until last night would take 1/2 hour > to boot and would be very painful to use. Xubuntu takes 1 minute and 30 > seconds to go from "on" to fully logged in with Wi-Fi connected and > makes it a very usable machine: great for web browsing, listening to > music or using the occasional spreadsheet.
To be fair, if you wiped & reinstalled the machine with a fresh clean copy of Windows 2000, I bet it would fly as well. Of course, then it needs patching up to date, followed by a visit to the very handy www.ninite.com to install anti-malware & a bunch of useful apps. So it's hours more work than with *buntu & of course you need a copy of Windows & a licence. But it's not solely a magic property of *buntu, handy as it is. Taking any old PC, formatting its disks & reinstalling it afresh with a suitable copy of its original OS or something not too much newer will always give it a huge new lease of life. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
