Introduction & Eee PC

[Nicholas Skaggs]

Welcome! I also had an underpowered laptop for a long time. Not to make 
this into a support thread, but I would offer using the alternate 
install cd and installing the server edition. Then install something 
like flubox or jwm or enlightenment, etc.. really any other lightweight 
window manger should work. This should allow your system to perform 
nicely. In addition, you can try using a lightweight browser.

ISO Testing to make sure the installer works and installs properly is 
part of our on-going tasks. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/TasksPrecise 
Since the eeePC would have to be booted and installed using usb this 
would make an interesting test case for our generated isos. Cheers,


Nicholas

On 01/12/2012 02:36 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi,
>
> welcome to QA.
>
> Hmm, if lubuntu is still too big for you I can only suggest you try 
> lubuntu-core (not lubuntu-desktop) which is the really stripped down 
> version of lubuntu. Details of the 11.10 series of this can be found 
> at 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall  I 
> am asking our head of dev to find out if the lubuntu-core option is 
> available for 12.04 yet.
>
> @Julien, is lubuntu-core available for 12.04 yet?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On 12 January 2012 11:33, Xelsior <xelsior24 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:xelsior24 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     Just joined the group. I've been a Linux user since the late 90's and
>     an Ubuntu user since 07. I've contributed to some bug reporting and
>     pages on the help wiki.
>
>     At the moment I have AntiX on my Asus EeePC simply because Ubuntu was
>     using too much memory. I had problems with Firefox maxing out the
>     memory and hitting the swap very hard. Swap access is just way too
>     slow on an Eee 701 with a slow SSD and 512mb of memory. Actually
>     everything else seems to run fine with an Ubuntu installation ...
>     except for the memory problem. I tried the other Ubuntu distro's like
>     Lubuntu but they have the same problem (they are aimed more at the
>     later Eee's). The general advice is to use a distro like AntiX, but I
>     don't see why Ubuntu could not have a repository package that strips
>     everything down - removes unnecessary kernel modules and other memory
>     and space saving tactics. Don't know if I'm in the right place for
>     that kind of development but I can do testing (boot on a live Ubuntu
>     SSD?) and I can help in many other ways.
>
>     Barney
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