____/ MartinDC on Wednesday 24 October 2007 09:40 : \____

> Hi
>
> I just installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my ageing Fujitsu Lifebook P2120. I
> was hoping to use if for my wife as a platform for Firefox only.,...
> so just for browsing and (G)mail and (Google) docs.
>
> But I discover it is painfully slow. A lot slower than even WIndows
> XP.
>
> Googling reveals that I would have to recompile the kernel (?) to get
> any kind of speed, because i386 Ubuntu doesn't run well on the Crusoe.
>
> Is there a (user-friendly) distribution (I am not a nerd) that
> supports the Crusoe chip?
>
> Rgds
>
> Martin

I can see some instructions < http://tuxmobil.org/cpu_transmeta.html > for many
platforms and discussions about performance <
http://uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/li...06.2/1764.html ,
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/lin...05.3/0046.html >,

Not much coming up here:

http://www.google.com/search?num=50&...ed&btnG=Search

I'd probably recommend Gentoo Linux (easy to compile for maximisation of
performance on your platforms), but it's more geek-oriented than most.

I'm giving you the URLs above, but I'll admit there's no good answer in this
post. Maybe others know better...

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MartinDC wrote:

> Is there a (user-friendly) distribution (I am not a nerd) that supports the Crusoe chip?

This one will run on 16MB ..

http://damnsmalllinux.org/

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/fujitsu.html

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:40:20 -0000, MartinDC wrote:

> But I discover it is painfully slow. A lot slower than even WIndows
> XP.
>
> Googling reveals that I would have to recompile the kernel (?) to get
> any kind of speed, because i386 Ubuntu doesn't run well on the Crusoe.

That's kind of strange, considering that Linus worked for Transmeta for a
long time.

On Oct 24, 6:14 pm, Erik Funkenbusch
wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:40:20 -0000, MartinDC wrote:
> > But I discover it is painfully slow. A lot slower than even WIndows
> > XP.
>
> > Googling reveals that I would have to recompile the kernel (?) to get
> > any kind of speed, because i386 Ubuntu doesn't run well on the Crusoe.
>
> That's kind of strange, considering that Linus worked for Transmeta for a
> long time.

It works, but is ten times slower than WIndows XP... and that CAN'T be
right

Rgds

Martin

On Oct 24, 11:59 am, Doug Mentohl wrote:
> MartinDC wrote:
> > Is there a (user-friendly) distribution (I am not a nerd) that supports the Crusoe chip?
>
> This one will run on 16MB ..
>
> http://damnsmalllinux.org/
>
> http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/fujitsu.html

I have plenty of memory, it's just that Ubuntu runs real slow on a
Crusoe

Martin