Another Laptop to Toy with Xubuntu

Posted on January 10, 2007 2 Comments

I acquired enough pieces to merge a few Dell laptops together last night. Now I have a P3 750 (384MB) to play with and can retire the P2 366 that I’ve been using to experiment with Xubuntu. [earlier Xubuntu articles]

I’m pleased (and oddly excited) by how much faster things run on this machine. I didn’t expect much difference, but it really is night and day! The previous laptop was ok, and I used it a lot, but I won’t deny that I sometimes was frustrated by it. This one will get more use. In fact, it might become one of the kid’s workstations once I sort out the joys of printer sharing with it.

Right now, I’m digging out my old posts and my sketchy memory:

Smooth Fonts for Ubuntu
Shell History Hack (middle of that post)
Xubuntu and Opera
Small Firefox memory tweak for the slower machines (hooray, actually doesn’t seem necessary)
Oh yeah, gotta get tsclient installed (mentioned here)
Let’s not forget to do the Firefox memory tweak.
Some of the Orange look. With gray background though.

I think I can safely disregard my posts about getting sound working on the previous laptop and server setups. Wonder if I’m forgetting anything obvious?

Anything you immediately do to a fresh linux install?

Tags: firefox, laptop, linux, opera, xubuntu

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2 Responses to “Another Laptop to Toy with Xubuntu”

Phil on September 10th, 2007 7:09 pm

How much RAM did your computer have that you installed Xubuntu. I thought it was for systems with a minimum of 64MB or RAM. My Gateway solo 1450 has 128 MB of RAM and Xubuntu was SO slow on it. I’m thinking about giving up on Linux.
Chris on September 10th, 2007 7:13 pm

288MB. it wasn’t too bad.

DamnSmallLinux was definitely the fastest.

I’ve actually gone full circle and have Win2000 Workstation on it currently.

If you’re curious about that journey, here is a series of posts starring that little P2 laptop: http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/tag/600e