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[alan c <aeclist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My guess was that there was the unfortunate combination of low cpu
power and  very little ram available. with the nominal 128MB chips
fitted, task manager indicated 116MB available. For most of the
activity, task mgr reported 109MB was being used. That only leaves
17MB (!) to do anything. Probably a couple of bytes at a time.....

It is an achievement for it to have survived!

With 281MB fitted it is slow and the cpu maxes to 100% a lot but it
does not but does not grind to a halt in that way.

alan c

On 05/03/12 02:10, Steven wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just finished installing Lubuntu Precise Beta 1 on a Dell Inspiron 3500
> with the above specs using the i386 Alternate Install.
> 
> The Guided - Entire Disk install was textbook. Took about two or three
> hours, I forget.
> 
> The laptop doesn't have built-in Ethernet or Wireless hardware, so I have a
> wireless PCMCIA card in it. Turns out the boot freezes somewhere before X
> even starts when I have it plugged in. Once I removed it though it booted
> up fine. Freezes every time I plug it in too. Didn't happen when I had Arch
> installed though.
> 
> Took maybe a minute or a minute and a half to get to an idle desktop. I
> didn't get the "indexing", high disk usage thing Alan did. Disk usage
> stopped about 10 seconds after I logged in.
> 
> 
> Application Testing:
> 
> PCManFM: Like a champ :)
> 
> LXTerminal: Perfectly usable, if a bit slow.
> 
> Leafpad: Perfectly usable, if a bit slow.
> 
> Abiword: There's a 1-2 second lag when typing. Slow but usable, if you're a
> patient kind of person :)
> 
> Gnumeric: A little slow, but perfectly usable.
> 
> Chromium: Usable, but slow. First time I opened it the whole system became
> completely unresponsive, but after I closed it and relaunched it I could
> navigate around the settings and a few tabs reasonably well. Keep in mind
> though that I don't have internet on this computer so I can't do a full
> test.
> 
> -Steven
> 
> 


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