hey all
hope this is the right place to ask...
first off - i cant really find any minimuim specs requirements for 7.10, anyone got any clues of what it really needs?
anyway, i got an old IBM X30 for communiting and stuff and figured with a nice lightweight OS it would be ok. specs from memory are pentium M 1.2 GHz, 40 Gb HDD and 512Mb RAM. i installed kubuntu 7.10 but its running really pretty badly, when i got the machine it only had 256mb ram and was using basically all of this ticking over, figured that was fair enough so upgraded to 512 - trouble is its still ticking over using nearly 500! processor ussage is pretty high doing not a lot - figure its stressing itself out paging a lot. not got any fancy stuff installed either.
from a wee bit of linux experience years back i remember i needing very little in the way of resources, am i expecting too much from an old machine or is something likely to be wrong? any ideas?
many thanks in advance
angus
hope this is the right place to ask...
first off - i cant really find any minimuim specs requirements for 7.10, anyone got any clues of what it really needs?
anyway, i got an old IBM X30 for communiting and stuff and figured with a nice lightweight OS it would be ok. specs from memory are pentium M 1.2 GHz, 40 Gb HDD and 512Mb RAM. i installed kubuntu 7.10 but its running really pretty badly, when i got the machine it only had 256mb ram and was using basically all of this ticking over, figured that was fair enough so upgraded to 512 - trouble is its still ticking over using nearly 500! processor ussage is pretty high doing not a lot - figure its stressing itself out paging a lot. not got any fancy stuff installed either.
from a wee bit of linux experience years back i remember i needing very little in the way of resources, am i expecting too much from an old machine or is something likely to be wrong? any ideas?
many thanks in advance
angus
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