Ubuntu 10.10

[Thorham]

Gonna install Ubuntu on my mom's Pentium 3 peecee, because Winblows XPee is probably too unsafe.

[cecilia]

Let me guess, you were using 8.04 before? Or is it just me that uses the LTS releases for the long haul?

I like LTS because I hate changing stuff.....this way I get a stable OS for years.

yes, I'm lazy.

I am using Ubuntu 98% of my computer time. It does everything I need to do.....only thing it can't run is AfterEffects.

[gertsy]

I also have Boxee installed. It runs fine.
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I noticed some have Linux on notebooks.
How is Linux for notebooks?

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Ubuntu 10.10 works fine on my old HP Omnibook 6100. PIII 1G.
When you can get it to start-up without powering the machine off, which is 80% of the time.
And trying to play music or DVDs while doing anything else is laughable.
It's also slow online.
The speed problem isn't the OS its the speed of the Browser and Flash within the browser.

If I install the original Win XP to SP1 and the original apps off the CD it does full screen video and plays DVDs fine.  Try to get onto the "new" internet / Flash/ streaming video and It's slow again.

Of course it's nice and fast on Amiga.org.

[runequester]

What do you use for a browser?

On my old PC with very little RAM (256 megs originally), I used Epiphany and it worked pretty good for internet stuffs.

[trekiej]

I ran Ubuntu 10.10 on Virtual Box and it had a driver issue. I ran it on hardware and had some visual distortion around some text.
I appears to be nice, but was not rated as high as others on some sites.
I have been running Ubuntu for weeks and a lot without rebooting.
I am impressed.

[Thorham]

What do you use for a browser?

I use Opera (currently under WinXp), but have used it under Ubuntu, too. Not the most memory efficient, but quite fast on a 667 Mhz Pentium 3.

[trekiej]

Anyone here use Arch Linux much?