Star Seven Steps to Kubuntu Feisty Fawn Bliss
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 4th May 2007 14:25 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu It's been like 3 hours without an Ubuntu article, so here we go. "With the release of Ubuntu 7.04, Feisty Fawn, I naturally couldn't resist taking Kubuntu, my preferred Ubuntu version, for a quick spin on my trusty old Thinkpad testbed. Here is a six-step process through which I speedily arrived at a highly usable, fully capable desktop Linux system."
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aesiamun
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2005-06-29

512MB? No clue, I will say that on 1GB it's roughly 40 seconds, and I just tried the Ubuntu LiveCD and it was closer to a minute.

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archiesteel Member since:
2005-07-02

That seems reasonable, since 1GB *is* the "real" recommended minimum for Vista. With 512MB, you'd get a lot more swapping with Vista (you shouldn't get any more swapping with the LiveCD, since it's not mounting hard drives in the first place).

Here's the deal: turn your PC off, open it up and remove some RAM (assuming you don't just have a single 1GB chip) so that you bring your PC down to 512MB, then try it again. I wouldn't be surprised if the LiveCD took less time to boot because of the reduced memory (and the increased need for swapping with Vista).

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