Hi all<br><br>Following all the problems I had trying to get Ubuntu running on my Lenovo netbook, I gave up! Stuck it on a shelf and will go back to it at some point, but just found it very frustrating!<br><br>So instead I bought a second hand T61 Thinkpad as I thought it would be a safe bet to run a number of Linux distros. I now have the latest Ubuntu running on it, and it's fine. However, with the rather old T61 I am sure there is a lot of stuff in Ubuntu that I don't need, particularly some of the eye candy which I am sure is slowing things down.<br>
<br>To speed things up a bit I've ordered an SSD to replace the hard drive and an extra 2gb of RAM (so will have 4 in total). However I still think Ubuntu will be a bit bloaty, so was wondering what people would recommend as a replacement that's friendly to older hardware?<br>
<br>I know there some Crunchbang aficionados on this list, and am more than happy to hear about the benefits of that system!<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Dave<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div>Dave Briggs - Director, Kind of Digital Ltd</div>
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