This time I'm trying to build a machine suitable for Unc, a freind of the family in his early 80s. He's got an original iMac upgraded to the last pre-X Mac OS, and it simply isn't cutting it for him. He's unable to open most of the attachments people send him; YouTube videos play like crap.
I never did get Xubuntu 6.10 to recognize the network cards.
I tried Xubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) but I get a TTY error on installation.
Xubuntu 6.06 Alternate went better. It installed -- slowly -- but immediately recognized both the D-Link wired and wireless PCMCIA cards.
It's really not bad. Only 2 complaints so far:
The performance of YouTube videos: it's bad.
Firefox is pokey. On several pages, including Netflix and Yahoo! Mail Beta the error message regarding long-running scripts pops up several times.
For grins I tried booting the machine with the BFX CD but it wouldn't boot.
I'm wondering how much things will improve if I install a lighter-weight window manager. I installed all the Matchbox packages using Synaptic (after turning on the "unsupported" repositories). A reboot still didn't display Matchbox as an option under "sessions" on the login screen.
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