Comments on: Hardy Heron Makes Me Happy

By: jake

jake — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:09:19 +0000

Hi Joe,

Try ubuntu instead of xubuntu or kubuntu.. I’m guessing there are some driver issues with not using the gnome graphics display.. . (I only have experience setting up ubuntu on an old 95 machine) FYI.. it will take longer to install if you only hvae 164m or ram.. it took an hour on my Toshiba Satellite machine with 2 gigs.

By: jake

jake — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:09:00 +0000

Hi Joe,

By: joe

joe — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:18:34 +0000

Hardy heron on a computer that shipped with Windows 95?

Wow…did you ever actually try that? Xubuntu 7.04 on a toshiba laptop (P2 with 164MB RAM ) that originally shipped with Win 98 took almost two hours to install using the alternate cd (I thought it was going to blow up from the strain) And it ran so slow it was terrible.The only thing that runs on it is wolvix .DSL would run on a system like that butInever got the video mode right. I just installed Kubuntu 8.04 on a hp desktop with P4 2.6 Ghz ,500 MB RAM and I’m finding it’s slower than 7.04 and Mint Daryna KDE .

By: joe

joe — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:18:00 +0000

Hardy heron on a computer that shipped with Windows 95?

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:45:01 +0000

@Parker.. you do make a great point, but I have to agree with Anon re: its definitely not required with an install, but it can drastically improve the performance of your machine if you are running on low system resources. E.g. an old laptop you pulled out of the closet with 512MB of ram. It is good to know about the ram = swap size, as I had been informed that you could go as much as double your ram without any problems.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:45:00 +0000

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:39:56 +0000

Well, swap space is swap space. The system will use it when it runs out of RAM. If you have a lot of RAM and don’t run intensive applications, swap space is basically not used. Swap space won’t speed anything up; all it will do is keep applications running if there’s no RAM to be had (otherwise the kernel starts killing applications). In the average system today, there is very little need for swap space.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:39:00 +0000

By: Parker

Parker — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:13:47 +0000

I just want to note that you may have slightly misrepresented the idea of a swap partition. It’s not just a nifty little trick, it’s quite important. The size of the partition is not just an arbitrary number. Some variance is fine, but a good rule is to match the amount of ram in the system. ie. 2GB ram = 2GB swap

By: Parker

Parker — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:13:00 +0000