Comments on: An 800Mhz computer IS NOT OLD!

By: 8.04 might be your best bet « Motho ke motho ka botho

8.04 might be your best bet « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:22:29 +0000

[...] to banish a 2.8Ghz machine to the closet. But people have heard me whine about that for a very, very long time, and whether or not people listen is immaterial any more. I could say you don’t need a new [...]

By: Issues of perspective « Motho ke motho ka botho

Issues of perspective « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:54:17 +0000

[...] lies the problem: That’s not the case any longer. Two years ago when people were ho-humming 800Mhz machines, or last year when Pentium 4s suddenly became “antiques,” I felt I had the moral high [...]

By: Fair but honest? Xubuntu 8.10 « Motho ke motho ka botho

Fair but honest? Xubuntu 8.10 « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:57:56 +0000

[...] to endorse it as a solution to older computers — and my definition of “older” is well below 800Mhz. Performance is just too weak at the desktop for me to consider it for my personal [...]

By: You can’t fight city hall « Motho ke motho ka botho

You can’t fight city hall « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:25:45 +0000

[...] Published September 7, 2008 Hardware , Ubuntu , Ubuntu Forums About a year and a half ago I ran screaming from the forums because 800Mhz machines were being thrown about and labelled as [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:00:40 +0000

Yeah Enlightenment is pretty darn cool, but it’s REALLY unstable for me.. it crashes almost every time I open the applications menu with a message that says “This is very bad.” lol

I thought I found the perfect match for this computer in installing Zenwalk, but I tried installing XChat from it’s TERRIBLE package manager, only to have it corrupt xorg, so it’s temporarily hosed right now until I find some motivation to get around to fixing it.

I’m using Edgy on my laptop right now, which is my main computer and it runs just fine, but seems to take up alot of ram in comparison to when I’m using say Fluxbuntu on my 566mHz emachine.

By: George

George — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:09:55 +0000

@Matt: I’ve found Enlightenment (without all the fancy effects) and IceWM pretty fast. You might want to give those a shot. Enlightenment DR17 is very pretty.

By: 800 MHz x86 computers are quite powerful.

800 MHz x86 computers are quite powerful. — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:22:58 +0000

[...] power quickly dwindle to below what is offered at the low end at most electronics retailers. I read a short article today which suggested that an 800 MHz Pentium III computer is not old. I have to agree! A system like that is quite [...]

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:40:25 +0000

My first run at using Ubuntu was on an 800 MHz, PIII machine. It was faster than the 1.1 GHz with Fedora Core 4/5. The deciding factor of switching to Ubuntu was everything actually worked on Ubuntu.

Now, like you, I have fun with the idea of “How long can I keep this machine not just running, but running well?” I wrote an entry about it in my blog.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:13:37 +0000

Hi Matt. Xubuntu is a good start, but I'm with you when you say it's not as snappy as it ought to be. It started out as an option for older computers but it has matured to a point that it's on par with Kubuntu or Ubuntu, in my opinion. There are a lot of options available; unfortunately a lot of them will require a some setting up. If you want something that's fast and good looking, try out FVWM-Crystal; if you tried Fluxbox but didn't care for it, there's still Openbox and IceWM that are good starting points. None of those are a full-fledged desktop, but that's why they're so fast. If you want to get things like automounting USB drives going, it will take an extra step to get it going, but the effort is worth it.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:28:49 +0000

I have a computer that’s around 800mHz mark and with 256 megs of ram, but no matter what I do with the thing it never seems to have the snappiness I need.. or want anyway. Right now it’s running Xubuntu Edgy, and that’s decently fast. I’ve tried using fluxbox and other lower end stuff, and even installed fluxbuntu, but it kinda seems like a pain in the butt to have to type a command in the command line to be able to use my usb stick, etc. It’s little things like that. Anyway, I was wondering if you could off the top of your head type a “sudo aptitude install …” for a decent-looking, fast desktop environment that would be useable on this machine. I’m looking to start over from a base command line install of edgy.