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   ray wrote:   
   > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:16:21 +0000, Limestone-Cowboy wrote:   
   >    
   >> I have an old Fujitsu Siemens B Series Lifebook and out of sheer pig    
   >> headedness i would like to install ubuntu or kubuntu.   
   >>   
   >> The machine has an add on FDD and a PCMCIA (non bootable) CDROM and has    
   >> a celeron 400MHz CPU and 128mb RAM.   
   >>   
   >> Is there a way I can copy the contents of an installation CD to the hard    
   >> disk via a usb adapter then install the disk in the laptop and install    
   >> from there.   
   >>   
   >> Furthermore, how easy is it to get the following hardware running   
   >>   
   >> Lifebook touchscreen   
   >>   
   >> LT Modem   
   >>   
   >> Built in network card.   
   >    
   > I can't answer the 'how to' part, but I do have some comments:   
   >    
   > a 400mhz celeron will be very slow with either Gnome (default Ubuntu   
   > desktop) or KDE (default Kubuntu desktop). Your experience will be much   
   > better from a performance standpoint if you try, say, XFCE (xubuntu would   
   > get you there) or Enlightenment (Elive would be my choice) or another of   
   > the 'lighter' desktops. Of the two (Gnome or KDE) I think it is still true   
   > that Gnome is a little 'lighter'.   
   >    
   I have run "red hat" on a PIII-450 which is not much faster than the   
   Celeron 400 and it ran quite well.  I have Ubuntu on a PIII-650 which   
   may be almost twice as fast as the Celeron, and it is very snappy.  If   
   you have over 256 meg of ram you may be happy with the result.  It will   
   be the size of your memory, not the speed of your cpu that will break   
   you here.  You do NOT want to get swapbound!!!   
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