A teacher likes Xubuntu Linux ... and another geek slims down Ubuntu
This 24-year-old teacher has been converting old iMac G3s to Linux with Xubuntu. He's got a helluva lot of comments on this post (which I found at Low End Mac).
He asks about whether or not he's using the right distribution, and in the comments, there was a link to this page on how to set Ubuntu up for high speed on low-spec systems. The writer, K. Mandla, says that his experience with Arch Linux made him (or is it her?) want to tweak Ubuntu for Arch-like speed:
I’ve built these systems on a variety of hardware. I used the core elements of this to put together a 75Mhz Ubuntu box, a 120Mhz Pentium system, a 300Mhz laptop for my mom to use, a 750Mhz laptop for music and movies, a 1Ghz desktop for gaming (you laugh, but I can run NWN at 1280×1024 on that ) and a 2.26Ghz see-if-you-can-break-it machine.
The results depend on the hardware, as you might imagine. But my proudest achievements are the fact that the 75Mhz Pentium build gets to the desktop on less than 22Mb (19Mb for the 300Mhz laptop!) and the 2.26Ghz machine goes from the Grub menu to the desktop in 27 seconds. It’s a joy to watch.