I think the problem with Ubuntu wasn't the RAM as such but the extremely slow write speeds of the SSD. Also the Kernal on Ubuntu was quite bloated. It ran perfectly on my old Celeron 1.8GHz/1.5GB RAM/80GB sata laptop though until it blew up (it actually only needs new hinges and some new cables).
It did run Xubuntu ok but there was a lot of jitter on BBC Iplayer, I no its not the procoessor because even on Iplayer the CPU activity was fairly low, the problem was the swap.
I realise I do need to just strip the thing out, remove the motherboard and put 1GB extra RAM in it, but its to new for that now. I also realise I am asking too much but messing about with distros on a low spec machine is quite a lot of fun :).
Rob it would have run fine but what web browser did you use? Lynx?
The problem now is modern web browsers eat so much RAM. If Kuki is too unstable (Kuki is actually an older version of Ubuntu designed to run on an Acer one with an SSD) I will just reinstall Xubuntu and run a stripped version of firefox.
Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Wed 19 May 10 at 16:21
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