Best OS for net browsing

[arunkporathoor]

hi
i am a newbie to Linux.i want a dual boot system with winXP and linux.
my configuration is
P4 1.GHz
512 MB ddr ram
40GB hard disk

many forums suggest slax but i read in som forums that slax installed on HDD crashes som times
i tried Linux Mint with GNOME but it is not fast enough for my config
i have 6 gb for both XP and Linux.
else i want to share to store movie ,music and books
can any one suggest me a good distro that can be installed on HDD for fast internet surfing?

Thanks in advance

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

i tried Linux Mint with GNOME but it is not fast enough for my config

Linux Mint should work fine on your machine. Which Graphics Card do you have? Did you install Graphics Driver for it or configured Display settings correctly. Wrong driver or display settings slow down machine in most cases.

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[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

You should be able to run pretty much any distribution on that machine although those distros running Gnome or KDE will run slower than a distro running a lighter weight desktop environment, or window manager only.

The OS itself shouldn't make much difference in browsing speed. If it was slow on other distributions, you might try disabling IPV6 if you haven't done so already. Doing that can often make quite a bit of difference in internet speed.

[arunkporathoor]

i amnot having a seperate graphics card.My mother board says it is M266A "THE ART OF TECHNOLOGY".where will i get driver for this board?

Currently iam using Xfce environment.i seems good to me.but at som time for some site and if iam opening more than 4 tabs it stop responding.

i dont need a system with fast browsing(that was my fault actually).i meant to hav a system with quick and stable response

[devils casper]

Boot up Xfce and execute this in Terminal :

sudo lspci | grep -i vga
less /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

[vigdavies]

If Windows is not resident, install Windows properly without and ethernet and USB connection other than the keyboard & mouse, do the updates, and restarts. Of course you'll need to connect to the internet sometime. Once you get Windows stabilized on your machine, then put the Ubuntu 9.1 disk in your optical drive, reboot, select that you want to boot from disk, follow the instructions; I recommend that you start off with at least 10GB reserved for Ubuntu. Tell us how it goes.

[arunkporathoor]

sudo lspci | grep -i vga
[sudo] password for porathoor:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]





# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "False"
EndSection


sorry i wasnot able to respond in time due to a mouse malfunctionig sorry again
thanks devils casper for valuable guidelines
hope this post will enable you to guide me

[devils casper]

xorg.conf file is not configured correctly.
Backup existing and create new.

cd /etc/X11
sudo mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.old
sudo nano xorg.conf

Paste these contents :

Section "Device"
       Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
         Identifier "Configured Monitor"
         HorizSync 31.5 - 50.0
         VertRefresh 40-90
         Option "UseEdidFreqs" "1"
         Option "ReducedBlanking"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Monitor "Configured Monitor"
        Device "Configured Video Device"
        DefaultDepth 24
        Subsection "Display"
             Depth 24
             Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubsection
EndSection

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file.
Reboot machine.

*** Check your Monitor's Manual for supported Refresh Rates ( HorizSync and VertRefresh ) and Resolutions (Modes). Edit xorg.conf file accordingly.