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I've been thinking about setting my mom up with Jolicloud (http://www.jolicloud.com/ http://www.jolicloud.com/), which I believe is based on Ubuntu. She has an
by blehn 16y ago
I've been thinking about setting my mom up with Jolicloud (http://www.jolicloud.com/ http://www.jolicloud.com/), which I believe is based on Ubuntu.
She has an HP netbook with an 8GB SSD, and WinXP gives her "running out of space" warnings all the time. She doesn't download anything, but her pagefile.sys file quickly grew to 2GB. After limiting the size of the pagefile, clearing a bunch of other temp files, and uninstalling everything I could, the problem came back within a few months. I think it's an indication of the collective ignorance of Microsoft and PC manufacturers that they would sell a "netbook" that can't reliably browse the web.
- AlexMuir 16y agoDo it. I put jolicloud on my aspire one. So much quicker. Having tried ubuntu though I'm not sure whether I'd just put that on next time and ignore jolicloud's social wrapping.
- blehn 16y agoYeah she doesn't need or want the social features, but it seemed like there was a way to install without having facebook, twitter, etc. accounts. And I figured the Jolicloud UI might be a little more straightforward for her than the standard Ubuntu UI.