Help with linux speed

JamesRJ

JamesRJ

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I've got a little download/file server box which I used to run xp on, it was a via itx 600 with 384 meg ram. I have now upgraded to a M10000 1ghz board with 512 ddr ram and thought I would try Linux on it.
I have installed Linux Mint and while impressed with the ease of installation I'm very unimpressed with the speed it runs at. Its a total slug, it wont even play an mp3 and browse the Internet at the same time. Which the old 600mhz board on xp had no problem doing ?
The question is, have I done something wrong ? Does it need optimising in some way ?
I realise that the 1ghz is very slow compared to today's standards but I assumed that Linux was less of a resource hog than windows not more.
 
No idea to be honest but its not just media playing its slow at, just plain web browsing using firefox is slow.
Everything is just very sluggish ?
 
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Try some other distributions.
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What would you suggest ? Factoring in I am a linux noob and want to use it mostly as a download box/file server for my popcorn hour, macbook & windows laptop to access. Also I need to be able to remote in to it as it wont have a monitor connected to it.
 
Having not much luck now, downloaded Arch, tried to install and got a grub error 18 when it booted, then tried Xubuntu and got same error 18.
Have tried changing LBA mode to normal ( googled error 18 ) but made no diference.
Anyone else come accross this ?

The drive was initally blank when I installed mint from cd
 
Have deleted all partitions and am curently installing arch.

Thanks for all the help so far, may need more later though ;)
 
Ok trying to install xfce
Have type in pacman -S xfce4
It then gives me the option to install whole content (Y/N) I put Y then it list loads of files with : Not Found then
Errors occoured, no packages were upgraded
 
Network is working.

I think the mirror im using doesnt have the files I need, it is using mir.archlinux.fr how can i change mirrors ?
 
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