What should I do to trim down an ubuntu install?
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I've got a very old laptop (Sempron 2800+ w/ 768MB RAM and SLOW disk). I'm using Ubuntu 9.04, which seems to work okay (although a bit slow) when I have 1-2 things open. However, it quickly gets so slow as to be unusable if I open much more than that. Is there anything non-essential that can be dis…
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Have you considered using a lightweight window manager on top of as opposed to the full Gnome desktop environment that comes default? This can use a lot less memory. Most of the *Box variants are very lightweight. BlackBox, OpenBox and FluxBox come …
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