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[Tom <question77610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77610 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77610

Tom proposed the following answer:
800MHz is ok but with only 256Mb ram you might find that the slight differences with Xubuntu make that a much better system for your machine
http://www.xubuntu.org/get
it will be much faster and more responsive than Ubuntu is likely to be for you right now.  During the install process choose "Manual Partitioning" and make sure all the partitions are Unticked in the "Format?" column.  Also edit the partitions to set "Mount Point" of you main partition for the OS & programs to "/" to tell the installer where to put these things.  You might have defined other partitions such as a /home and these need to be defined here too.  Hopefully by making sure that the "Format?" column is unticed you will find that all your data and stuff remains undamaged but it's worth backing thing up to external drive or something first, just in case.

On the other hand if Ubuntu is ok on your machine then there's no need to switch to Xubuntu ;)
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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