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PC World: Make Dapper Drake Perform on Old Hardware

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“As a longtime fan of SuSE Linux, I somehow managed to miss the
Ubuntu bandwagon. Now I know what I was missing. I recently
replaced SuSE 10.1 with Ubuntu 6.06, also known as Dapper Drake, on
my main PC in a matter of minutes, and am now enjoying a clean,
feature-rich computing environment that is easy to configure and
just works.

“It was such a nice change, I began to wonder how well Ubuntu
would run on some of my older PCs. Alas, the resulting
installations were a little slow, and in one case installation
failed completely. But a little research turned up tricks to get
Ubuntu sprinting even on antiquated systems…”

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