Need help with Memory Issues on Chromium on Lubuntu

[Pikmin]

Hi guys, I'm in a bit of a pickle here.
You see, my grandpa has this old Dell Inspiron 6000 laying around and when I went to his home to have dinner with him he mentioned that it is running extremely slow...

He brought me to it and showed me. When he tried to open Internet Explorer, it literally took around 2 minutes just for the program to start. It was really bad. I took it home and after further investigation I think he is infected with some type of virus that is taking his CPU load up to 100 percent. Now, I cannot even connect to my internet for some reason. Every time I hit connect it starts to connect but quits for some reason and never does. I can't get to the internet.

I think my only option is to boot to some Linux distro and see how it runs there, the problem is that I have absolutely NO idea what distro I should use and how I should boot it without installing it. I heard that there is Live-CDs where I can just boot from and it won't install it. What I found was this http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/features

I think this can allow me to see how this laptop performs and test the CPU load. I found Xubuntu and I'm going to use the tool I specified to live boot from my USB.

This problem has been solved and I now know the source of the problem. I connected my ethernet cable to the laptop and every time I try to load a page it goes...
"He's dead, Jim! Either Chrome ran out of memory or the process for the webpage was terminated for some other reason. To continue, reload or go to another page."

I set the persistent memory of the live boot to 2GB, is that too little? What is the problem here?

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[D3ATH LORD]

I would probably pick what is selected in the picture, Xubuntu. If Xubuntu is too slow, then try Lubuntu, which is the one just under it.

Infact, put Lubuntu in first priority, considering that your laptop (according to specifications on the website) has 512 MB of RAM.

[Pikmin]

I would probably pick what is selected in the picture, Xubuntu. If Xubuntu is too slow, then try Lubuntu, which is the one just under it.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. As far as I'm concerned Ubuntu isn't exactly the most complicated distro to set up? I have more than enough time to fix this laptop but I want to do it in a timely manner. He mostly just checks his email and goes on news sites so he won't see a difference between XP and Xubuntu/Lubuntu.

[Kingdaro]

If you want something fast and stable, I would go for Mageia.

[D3ATH LORD]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. As far as I'm concerned Ubuntu isn't exactly the most complicated distro to set up? I have more than enough time to fix this laptop but I want to do it in a timely manner. He mostly just checks his email and goes on news sites so he won't see a difference between XP and Xubuntu/Lubuntu.

Installing any of these system nowdays is very straightforward and simple. Just follow the steps and have patience while files get copied and installed.

If you want something fast and stable, I would go for Mageia.

I wouldn't veer off to other, less significant Distros due to the fact that they may not have such a large range of software or updates being developed for it. Ubuntu and it's descendants are constantly being developed and are extremely well-known, and have an extensive library of software written for it, so there's no reason to take a different Distro unless there's a good reason for it, like if you have 128 meg of RAM you could think about installing DSL or Puppy Linux.

[Pikmin]

If you want something fast and stable, I would go for Mageia.

Thank you for the help but as Death states I want good support for it. Now I'm sure this has plenty of support but I just feel more comfortable with Xubuntu.

[KoopaScooper]

I've had a better experience with Universal USB Installer than with the program you're trying to use.
Linux definitely runs better than Windows on my Latitude D610.

[Pikmin]

Aw yeah, I just booted from my USB and it's looking good guys, got the xubuntu logo loading screen!

[Pikmin]

So guys how do I connect to the internet? I found "Network Connections" in my Settings panel but how do I find a list of connections so I can connect to my internet? Is there software that I need to get to be able to do this?

[KoopaScooper]

You probably don't have the wireless firmware required for your hardware. Run this command in terminal:

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lspci | grep WirelessPost list.

[Pikmin]

You probably don't have the wireless firmware required for your hardware. Run this command in terminal:

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lspci | grep WirelessPost list.

Ok so I did that and a list really didn't come up.

"03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)"

Ok so disregard that, I found Network Manager and I am trying to vonnect to my Wifi network. But for some reason it doesn't let me join it. I enter my Wifi password and it loads for a bit and then just brings back up the dialog for entering the password. I don't get whats going on here.

[KoopaScooper]

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sudo apt-get install ipw2200-firmwareif it's not available get it here

[Pikmin]

[D3ATH LORD]

How much memory does your laptop have?

Also, close every application, open system monitor (somewhere in the menu) and tell us how much memory is free.

[Pikmin]

How much memory does your laptop have?

Also, close every application, open system monitor (somewhere in the menu) and tell us how much memory is free.

I found the issue, this laptop only has 256MB of RAM, no wonder I can't get on Chromium by live boot. I'm going to try Puppy Linux and Linux Mint to see if I can get better results. I have a feeling Puppy Linux is going to work well on this laptop.