[olug] ubuntu slowing down

[Benjamin Watson]

I like Ubuntu as well but have noticed that post Fiesty Fawn (8.04?),
Ubuntu has been running slow for me as well.  I'm running it on older
hardware as well (and old P4 Dell with 512M RAM).  However, when I had
Fiesty installed, it screamed like a rocket and felt very nimble.  I
think some of these newer Ubuntu releases are suffering from bloat.

You may want to explore some other Ubuntu derived distros (names elude
me now but I saw some mentioned on list) that are lighter weight.  For
example, Mythbuntu uses XFCE as a desktop manager which is very
lightweight and runs great on my old hardware.

Aside from that, have you experimented with using other browsers?  I
assume you're using the stock Firefox that ships with Ubuntu.  Perhaps
Opera?  There is an early development version of Chrome for Linux
here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Paul H. Lewis <phldml3 at cox.net> wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 and have been for about six months or so.  As of
> the last month or so I've been noticing that after surfing the web to
> places like Facebook, Nick Jr, etc. the computer slows way down.  It's a
> Dell Dimension 4400 with 512M of mem (so not a real fast computer to
> start with), but it has been running better then it is now.  Dynatron
> provided the flasswipe which I have been using to remove all the Flash
> cookies and that helps somewhat.  The machine bogs down on the internet
> mostly and has made surfing the web near impossible.  Any suggestions as
> to what I need to clean up in order to get it processing faster again?
>
> Paul
>
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