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Installed Ubuntu on my old Toshiba laptop.

You hear stories of how it’ll make an old laptop seem like new. It’s true. The poor thing would take fifteen minutes to boot up Windows XP with all current security patches and antivirus crap.  Ubuntu launches, if not as fast as our Mac laptop, pretty damned close.  Still looking at what programs to use as ‘replacements.’ Chrome is wonderfully fast on this old clunker.  I used the Wubi installer so I could keep Win XP, just for website checking.  Everything worked [works] wonderfully.

07/01/10 • 04:12 PM • Computing • Hardware • Personal • Software • 1 Comment

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The entire Open Office suite is a delight

Posted by emmett on 07/01/10 at 10:11 PM

 

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