[ale] Linux in 1 GB RAM

[JD]

I've had terrible install times with Ubuntu if the machine was network
connected, but not on the internet.  Seems the installer assumes
NETWORK=INTERNET.  Over 2 hrs as every network request had to time out before
the process continued.

Unplugged the ethernet and installed ... 10 minutes.

I've run LXDE-Ubuntu (Lubuntu) on a P4 with 512MB of RAM. Worked better than
WinXP by far. It screams on a 1G box.

For anyone migrating family from WinXP ... I think Lubuntu is easier than going
to Win7.  The interfaces are more alike.

On 06/27/2013 07:45 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> Yesterday I found what causes this slowdown in Linux distros I have
> tried before. In general is a very slow access to hard drive which
> come  factory with the system. SATA 250 GB Western Digital some model.
> I hooked an old spare 13 GB IDE drive that I have for emergency cases
> and installation went fast and Linux worked as it should. Now I have
> to figure what is wrong:
> 
> 1. Linux drivers for that particular chipset? The mainboard is build
> around ATI chipset.
> 
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c00783614#N88
> 
> 2. Bad SATA controller.
> 3. Bad hard drive.
> 
> Suggestions would be appreciated!
> 
> On 6/20/13, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just had horrible experience with Ubuntu-12.04. Hours of install then
>> installed LXDE things got better, then unresponsible system when you
>> run Browser and software center together. Like you have Java script in
>> loop hanging around the system. Got mad and installed Knoppix. I would
>> say German engineering :)
>>
>> On 6/19/13, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>>> Why, Gentoo of course, but then again I run Gentoo on everything I can
>>> get my hands on (or used to).
>>>
>>> If you are limited to 1GiB RAM - and I have been before - you may be a
>>> bit swap-dependent; I'd encourage putting swap on its own drive and that
>>> drive on its own IDE controller; might want to test out any loose drives
>>> you have lying around with bonnie++ and seeing which ones do random
>>> read-writes the fastest.
>>>
>>> On 6/18/13 10:47 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
>>>> Whay distro would you install in 1 GB
>>>> I used to run Kde 1 and Netscape in 64 MB but those days are long
>>>> gone. Is for Windows user that got his recovery CDs lost. I will try
>>>> with Linux
>>>> Dual core Pentium D.
>>>>