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Originally Posted by admars
I played with Slitaz for a while on my laptop, it's an amazing distro, flies like the wind, but probably not the best who want Linux to just work for them like MS Windows does. Requires a bit of thought and reading, looking forward to trying Slitaz 3 soon.
I tried lubuntu at the weekend on my PII 450, it was really disappointing, very slow, jerky mouse when browsing even after install.
however just read:
Linux Mint 8 “Helena” LXDE RC1 released!
http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1325
so that's currently downloading now to try 
s3 cards were never great were they? I'm lucky the PII450 has an old Diamond Viper 550, Nvidia Riva TNT, which when I bought the PC was a brilliant card Still does the job for websurfing etc, not much good for games though. Actually the reason I knew it was time to buy a new PC, was when that one struggled to show trailers for new games! |
I dont think i`d even bother trying
any of the *buntu variants on that old thing.
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Originally Posted by dave6x
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 dual booting with Win2000Pro SP4 on a 9 year old PC (AMD Athlon 1.33Ghz, 768MB RAM, GeForce FX5200).
Generally Ubuntu 9.10 is running satisfactorily although for most tasks Win2000Pro runs faster and smoother. I have also had graphics issues with one or 2 sites giving Java errors however having followed all the guidance from the forums I can't resolve them!!!
Installing software from the Ubuntu Software Center is simple but installing from any other source is unfortunately rather cumbersome and was not very straightforward for a newbie!
Ubuntu picked up most of the hardware OK, and Plug and Play works for most USB items, however there are no Linux drivers available for my HP 4850 scanner (I understand this is an HP failing!). I am finding it very frustrating that despite all my efforts I cannot get my USB MIDI adaptor to work, which is rather unfortunate as this old PC was relegated to my music room and is supposed to at the centre of my music projects!!!
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You`re comparing a modern OS with one which is now ten years old so i wouldn`t be too surprised about the older one running faster on your older hardware there.
Software installation is as simple as it comes in my opinion though, even for a complete novice.
For your java issue, if you haven`t already then make sure the sun-java6-bin, sun-java6-jre & sun-java6-plugin are all installed.....which you`ll find in synaptic of course.
The restricted extras package should also cover them for you though.