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Sluggish Ubuntu 10.4
Could I have overloaded my Aptiva with 833 MHz when I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.4?
It seems very sluggish now, particularly on launching apps and booting. When offered the upgrade, there weren't any disclaimers or suggestions about regarding the kinds of equipment that would work well with the upgrade, otherwise I might not have taken it. I also did not notice any sluggishness when I upgraded my laptop, though as noted WINE is not as good as before. |
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How much memory does this computer have?
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I think your specs are too low
And to me its seems too easy to run Ubuntu inside XP and I dont need to run wine as I have windows to run windows programs There are heaps of people having problems with wine Google it and see I had a Epox with a 500mhz chip clocked to 530mhz and with 768mb of ram and 8.04 it ran faster than my Dell 2.4ghz and a gig of ram But in an attempt to run it faster I flashed the bios and it died My lowest spec machine on ubuntu is 2ghz cpu and I thought it was too small to take to 10.04 it currently runs 9.04 |
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I have one of the original Asus EEE 701 netbooks, which is equipped with a 900mhz celeron processor, scaled to 600mhz. It can run Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 with compiz effects very well, but it also has 2GB of DDR2 ram, which significantly improves performance.
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833 I think is Pentium 3, and I think I have 512 RAM, but I'm not really sure.
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From what is said here, Canonical should have released a very explicit disclaimer telling people that 10.4 is not going to work too well with old equipment. If it is mentioned on its website, then it is hard to find. Plus, I haven't observed any breakthrough or really new thing to go with it to make it a choice over the older versions. The packaged apps, particularly Open Office, remain behind commercial. I also don't understand the left side "X" to terminate an app. What was the point of that, except to say we're not Windows? |
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"Canonical should have released a very explicit disclaimer telling people that 10.4 is not going to work too well with old equipment. If it is mentioned on its website, then it is hard to find."
Total Noob, Upgrade your computer. It's not their fault your computer is is severely out of date. It's impossible for developers to make everyone happy, and Lucid is much like a sleek and powerful Jaguar (V12)... and your trying to push it down the street with a little red wagon... of course it wont work. I don't mean to be a smart arse, but would you try to run Windows 7 on that toaster? Even though XP worked fine? Sometimes it just needs to be said: Upgrade your hardware. :-) |
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Check out this forum for Linux distros that work well on older hardware:
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/...d.php?t=208444 I like Puppy Linux, and it has absolutely the* best hardware detection I have seen in any distro... wonderful for data recovery and odd/old hardware. |
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The difference to me, a former Windows user, is night and day. It wasn't until 9.10 that I started to use Linux...formatted my Windows partition, installed Ubuntu, and haven't looked back since.
Linux has come such a long way, even just over the last couple of years. |
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I have 3 machines with 1gig of ram each and one with 512mb It easy to guess what slowest but it has its uses and has helped me get the others up and running |
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I don't have that much and I guess that's why I'm bogging down. I think a supplier like Canonical has to provide all the specifics up front rather than let it be a non-reversible surprise later. it is really a trivial effort to warn people about problems the company already knows about. I did the upgrade by way of an automated system update notification; the least that Canonical could have done was install a read.me or an automatic systems requirement check with the installer so I could determine what to do. They do say what the requirements are at distrowatch and on their site, but a Total Noob has to know to look for it, and I didn't, and all a Total Noob has to do to upgrade automatically is agree to install it and it does without further adieu, so the company lets Total Noobs make those mistakes unwarned. As for older or lighter versions, those are all good ideas, but unsupported Linux with no upgrades and possibly no repository support is not that helpful, and kind of contrary to one of the stated points of Linux, to save old equipment from the scrap heap. I should probably buy new and upgrade, but the unit in question is already a backup and a toy to experiment with as it is, plus it does Last.fm and will make a power point if absolutely necessary (I won't pay for that software, I do it too rarely), so it still has a purpose that isn't worth buying a new computer over -- assuming it works. Wasn't that one of the points of Linux? |
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you said you did the upgrade automatically, if this is really the case, then there is nobody to blame but youself. Your settings should be set so you can review all updates before the system installs those updates. If you chose not to review updates before installing then what can they do? It was your decision!!
Like with any software, you need to do your own research before installing anything to see if it meets your requirements, if there were problems with the distro/updates, etc... one more thing, you completely misunderstood the point of linux. Quote:
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=198500289 Item titled: How to Revive an Old PC (Info Week, 2008) |
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see http://www.linux.org/info/
that article you provided is one of the uses for but NOT the reason for linux or why linux was created. Like any other operating system, you cannot create an operating system to run all new and OLD computers and all old and new devices that is in those computers. There are distros that will run older computers like there are still windows versions available that will run older computers. Last edited by renegade600; May 22nd, 2010 at 03:31 AM. |
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You have already asked about running Linux on low spec computers and been given some good opinion. If you are really looking to get a Linux system up and running then stop blaming Canonical (they are not responsible for the whole of the Linux distros) and do some research into the problem..
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...emRequirements If, on the other hand , you are simply trolling.........................................: (((( |
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