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ubuntu experience 3.4
November 24, 2010My IBM thinkpad 600E is working wonderfully in puppy linux 5.0.1 I tried installing puppy linux 5.1.1 but there had been some issues regarding the Live CD’s so I just let it hold for a while. Now for the main story, I tried to run ubuntu 10.10 on my toshiba A10 laptop and lo! it can’t run.
Ever since I did a partial upgrade of my Ubuntu 9.10 I had experienced a nagging problem which is the CPU history (CPU Usage in windows) would surge to 100% even though I didn’t open any software yet. This is because the latest release of ubuntu had dropped their support for “older” i386 processors (this includes P4). This revelation came like a slap on my face. I can’t do anything now but to look for another OS. For the meantime my toshiba is running Mepis Linux 8.0 with WinE installed. It seems to work fine but when I run window based games into it, the CPU usage would suddenly jerk up to 100%. The following candidates for my toshiba are the following:
1. Xubuntu 10.04 - the “lightest” of the mainstream ubuntu
2. Lubuntu 10.04 - an unofficial derivative of ubuntu using the LXDE platform
3. Askal 5.1 - ok please dont look at this on the web. I’m going to build it myself using puppy woof
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