Unfortunately, thin-and-light machines are some of the worst PCs you can choose if you actually want a good Linux experience.

So I tried a distro I'd never used before: Bodhi Linux. This distro epitomizes lightweight and is quite unlike any of the ...

I'm trying to figure out what laptops I should be looking at for this set of requirements: * Must be light. The user is finding my old T60 (at a bit over 5 pounds) much too heavy. 3 pounds seems to be ...

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Target machine is an IBM T20 laptop, PIII 650Mhz, 256MB RAM. All I need to do with it is use OpenOffice (or a capable equivalent) and a browser. I tried Ubuntu 9.10, but it was so slow as to be ...

Kubuntu is an operating system that combines the popular Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution with the KDE desktop environment. And while the developers behind Kubuntu are primarily focused on software, they ...