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Garmendia Joined: Sep 08, 2008 Posts: 1 Other Topics	Posted Sep 09, 2008 at 3:25:30 PM Subject: Fast Distros Hello:I am newie on Linux questions, but I has install some distro as: Kubuntu 606 or Ubuntu 606, and this are very slowsly than Windows XP.- I have one PC with Intel 4- 3.00 gh 1024-667 DDR2 and dont work very well with this distro. I am looking for one distro ,that work fast and right.If somebody can help me thanks very much.
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rokytnji Joined Jul 26, 2008 Posts: 460 Location:Pecos, Texas Other Topics	Posted: Sep 10, 2008 2:14:33 AM Subject: Fast Distros I run Ubuntu 8.04 Gnome on my IBM M-41 Desktop 1.8ghz,1 gig ram and it works pretty quick. I also installed Ubuntu 8.04 Gnome on my Panasonic CF-48 1.6ghz, 512mb ram laptop and it runs faster than XP on my wifes IBM T-23 with the same specs . I also run Mandriva KDE 2008 on my Amrel RT 686 EX 900mhz, 256mb ram laptop and it runs OK also. Both my laptops also run wirelessly. Mint Linux should also run well with your specs and comes with all codecs. Also Mepis 7.0 is a good Distro to run that comes with all codecs. Everything I have suggested I have either ran at one time or is installed at present on my computers. Light travels faster than the speed of sound. Thats why certain people appear bright till they open their mouths. "Where is the 'any' key?" – Homer Simpson, in response to the message, "Press any key" Registered Linux User # 475019
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Reed Joined Feb 07, 2008 Posts: 137 Other Topics	Posted: Sep 13, 2008 3:33:01 PM Subject: Fast Distros Things that have run quickly and well on a Compaq nc6220 laptop with Pentium M 1.86 GHz processor and 1 GB ram. PCLinuxOS Mini 2008 is pretty darn quick. It uses LXDE as a desktop environment, I believe. Puppy Linux runs blazingly fast, but you'll make some sacrifices as far as eye candy and choice of applications. I used to use Arch Linux with LXDE, which was pretty bloody quick, but of late I'm using Debian testing with XFCE. Not quite as quick, but still respectable. Faster than Windows ever was on my machine. I haven't tried it, but Linux Mint just came out with a fluxbox community edition, which promises a combination of user friendliness and out of the box media capabilities, while keeping a pretty light memory footprint. But it's a release candidate so there might still be some bugs.
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Joined Dec 03, 2008 Posts: 10 Other Topics	Posted: Sep 14, 2008 6:51:31 AM Subject: Fast Distros I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 on a much slower machine, and it seems an acceptable speed. You should try the newest Ubuntu (if you want to stick with Ubuntu) and see if that does better. A few pieces of advice: - sometimes what appears to be slowness can be caused by video driver issues. - Some people think running an older version of a distro will be faster. Usually it's not, unless it's a really old version (like, 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6). - You can get the most significant speed gains by switching to a low-footprint desktop environment (or window manager) like jwm, fluxbox, lxde, wmaker, etc. You lose some functionality, though.
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gregorydearth Joined Oct 04, 2008 Posts: 39 Other Topics	Posted: Oct 04, 2008 9:27:43 PM Subject: Fast Distros DSL is a stripped down debian. Super fast. Takes a little getting used to. Comes with JWM, which looks like a clean windows 2000 desktop. And you can upgrade it to full debian, which is still fast. I use it on an old Pent.1 and it is way quicker than windows 2000 or any other linux distro. I can't imagine how fast it would be on a pent. 3!
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Ignatz Joined Oct 07, 2008 Posts: 2 Location:Europe Other Topics	Posted: Oct 07, 2008 3:20:00 AM Subject: Fast Distros I can recommend the following fast distributions : Puppy Linux, very small and fast, Muppy Linux builds on Puppy, Both distributions are easy to handle and you can use them as a second OS on a flash drive for example. Zenwalk is also fast and clearly. They all run much faster than XP. Xubuntu I tried also and it was not really fast. http://www.puppylinux.org/ http://minisys-linux.de/ http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=232550#232550 http://www.zenwalk.org/
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Ignatz Joined Oct 07, 2008 Posts: 2 Location:Europe Other Topics	Posted: Oct 07, 2008 3:22:25 AM Subject: Fast Distros http://minisys-linux.de/EN/index.htm
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