Comments on: Xubuntu review

By: cc_INC

cc_INC — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:41:42 +0000

That laptop needs Slitaz or Puppy Linux!

By: William Sanford

William Sanford — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:37:38 +0000

Lubuntu is much, much lighter than Xubuntu. However, given when this thread was written, I’m not sure Lubuntu existed yet.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:49:30 +0000

Well, you have twice the RAM, I bet that makes some difference.

Thanks for the Open Office tips though, I’ll try them.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:16:07 +0000

I’m puzzled- I’m running an Ibm R31 (1.13ghz, 512 ram, 30gig hard drive) and except for the limited hard drive space it runs ubuntu just fine. Granted, it will slow down occasionally- but thats only after I’ve opened up more than perhaps 10 programs all at once.

Oh, as for the problem you have with openoffice slowing down on you- I think it’d might help if you:

1. Open OpenOffice
2. Click on tools and then options.
3.Click on memory
4. A- limit the number of steps to 30
B Limit memory to 20
C. memory per object 5.2mb

5. Find Java- it’s 8 below the memory tab- unselect the “use JRE tab”.

That should fix things for writer, I dont’ really use the other parts of office- but I think it’d help with them as well.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:27:09 +0000

good lord. surely i was adopted.