WOW
It is so fast in boot up after POST - 5-6 seconds.
jaw-drop
Lubuntu - so fast :O
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Lubuntu has rescued several really old machines for me. I have 12.04 running on two machines that are a decade old now.
Locus Kiesselbachi said: WOW
It is so fast in boot up after POST - 5-6 seconds.
jaw-drop
Perhaps it's time I tried it too! What are you running it on?
I have to say that under Lubuntu my 7 year old laptop is as quick as you like
I've been really interested in buying some low end computer and giving Lubuntu a spin on it to see what kind of performance I get. I'm such a big Xfce fan though that I'm afraid I'd get annoyed by the desktop.
You can make it look quite sweet to...
[IMG]http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/Speedwell68/2013-04-11-142612_1360x768_scrot.png[/IMG]
Algus said: I've been really interested in buying some low end computer and giving Lubuntu a spin on it to see what kind of performance I get. I'm such a big Xfce fan though that I'm afraid I'd get annoyed by the desktop.
LXDE is really no lighter than XFCE. It's all dependant on how a distro packages it and the bloat they incorporate. http://blog.xfce.org/2012/05/questions-after-the-4-10-release/
If your an Ubuntu user use the minimal/netinstall image and add XFCE. It's nothing like Xubuntu.
speedwell68 said: You can make it look quite sweet to...
[IMG]http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j185/Speedwell68/2013-04-11-142612_1360x768_scrot.png[/IMG]
Really cool !
Feathers McGraw said: Perhaps it's time I tried it too! What are you running it on?
Hello!
Well, this one in particular has 3770K and SSD Vertex3 on Sata3 DDR3 2channel on medium 1600MHz (but max-ed out for CPU by default)
I tried RAID0 with SSDx2 and with latest Fedora Beta, but speed wasnt anything to mark out.
Now im stumbling on GRUB time-out "problem" (thread) , that rises boot time without input to 300% of original. da*n it!
boot, in comparsion 5sec with Lubuntu, with win7 on Vertex4 SSD (should be slightly faster hard-drive) it was about ~18 seconds, AFTER the POST. So, thats why the jaw-drop when I saw LXDE in action.
Sorry if anyone had hoped me to say "jaw-drop" to decade old rig. :) Im sure key to fast boot up here is SSD, so no IDE & HDD.
...but I also have one (lets say scavenged and resoldered) 8-9 year old rig AMD Athlon1800+ with HDD and DDR1 - it runs faster than with XP SP2. With Linux I had to deal with obsolescent graphic-cards, dirver problems etc. You can look here my old thread about that (it has photos also :D).But this old rig helped to rise trust for Ubuntu in general. It didnt make me to exactly jaw-drop, but made me very happy, after week of man-hours.
LK
speedwell68 said: I have to say that under Lubuntu my 7 year old laptop is as quick as you like
I would put (L)ubuntu on every computer, if you ask me! :) I would even do it for free, like charity or something!
mips said: LXDE is really no lighter than XFCE. It's all dependant on how a distro packages it and the bloat they incorporate. http://blog.xfce.org/2012/05/questions-after-the-4-10-release/
If your an Ubuntu user use the minimal/netinstall image and add XFCE. It's nothing like Xubuntu. So ... you say that Xubuntu is even more lighter! Oh, Im getting greedy! :D
Locus Kiesselbachi said: So ...
you say that Xubuntu is even more lighter! Oh, Im getting greedy! :D
No. Xubuntu is heavier than Lubuntu. What I said is XFCE is no heavier than LXDE, I'm referring to DEs and not distros. How a distro implements lxde & xfce determines how heavy it's going to be.
does it still idle at 90mb RAM usage? I remember I tried it on a netbook I think a couple of years ago now and that little Ram usage was awesome at the time.
Speedwell How did you get that looking like that :O
(New to lubuntu)
Locus Kiesselbachi said: It is so fast in boot up after POST - 5-6 seconds.
what hdd? here is my xubuntu 13.04 bootchart (using laptop, see signature) http://imgur.com/M6CurN3 (386.62 KB)
Locus Kiesselbachi said: So ...
you say that Xubuntu is even more lighter! Oh, Im getting greedy! :D
I have to agree about the speed it's excellent. If you don't want to get your hands dirty configuring this and that. Just install and go. It's even surprisingly fast on a usb drive. Works great on my six year old laptop.
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tjeremiah said: does it still idle at 90mb RAM usage? I remember I tried it on a netbook I think a couple of years ago now and that little Ram usage was awesome at the time.
no, more like 300mb