[Lancaster] Freespire impressions

[John Scott]

Hi Ken

Any idea where I can get some ram for a Thinkpad T22??

Regards

John

Ken Hough wrote:
> John Scott wrote:
>
>> Hi Ken
>>
>> Before you install Ubuntu again, give Mepis a try. I was pleasantly 
>> surprised at how user friendly and quick it is *Boot and run. Im 
>> running a P3 850 with 128MB Ram and it runs like a dream. Device 
>> support is great, the forum is active and the people very helpful and 
>> Im not moving away from it in the foreseeable future.
>>
>> The single disk download is a live cd, with a Install Me link on the 
>> desktop. Even the Live CD worked quite quickly on my machine. This is 
>> the only small footprint Linux other than DSL that I have tried and 
>> It outweighs all other distro's I tried. I have also attempted Ubuntu 
>> 6.06 and Suse 10.1 and was disappointed with performace in both 
>> instances.
>
> I use SuSE v10.1 on my IBM Thinkpad T21 (800MHz PIII with 384MB of 
> RAM) and it works well, even with heavyweight apps like Kstars and 
> Gimp. SuSE does need a bit of RAM to perform well with 256MB being the 
> recommended minimum. On my desktop PC (Athlon 2200XP with 512MB of 
> RAM) it flies!
>
> SuSE v10.1 can be speeded up by disabling some unneccessary (for most 
> usage) background apps.
> For starters, try:    'rpm -e zmd rug zen-updater'.
>
> The likes of Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, etc are all pretty good these days, 
> but they are different. For this reason, I suggest that you will have 
> more success by sticking with one distro and getting to know it. SuSE 
> is my distro of choice. I now know it fairly well, so it works for me.
>
> I do play with other distros, but probably because I am not so 
> familiar with them, they sometimes give me problems.
>
> Ken Hough
>
>
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