Performance Issues of Dell Latitude D600
 

Hi, I recently installed Ubuntu v7.10 on my Dell Latitude D600 and I'm having some problems. Just to put this out there right away, I'm a total newb and am pretty clueless about Linux but plan to get better by just tinkering with it, but I have a bit of a problem.
My computer with Ubuntu is going slower than it did with Windows installed. Can anyone help me figure out how to speed it up without buying extra parts? I skimmed through the posts and couldn't find anything... at least that I understood.
I'd give you my system specs, but I don't know how to find them through the Ubuntu distro.
thanks

What makes you think the system is going slower?
Linux has some default timeouts where if a service is not set up Linux will wait a certain about of time before moving on (maybe that is the problem).
What are you doing when you notice this system slowness?

A general rule of thumb: Linux will run faster given the same hardware as any version of winders that I've seen.

Most important is how much RAM you have, especially when running GNOME or KDE.

So, if you don't know how much RAM you have, open a terminal or console, and type this in:
then press <Enter>, you can just read the first line, something like:
that would be for 1 GB.

sorry, i don't know if "slower" was the correct term. my system seems to lag a lot. and when using firefox, it seems to take at least twice as long for things to load as it did when i was using firefox through windows xp.

my RAM is:
MemTotal: 515572 kB

but then MemFree, when just running firefox, is:
MemFree: 7032 kB

i don't know if that makes much difference, but... is there anyway for me to speed my internet up and cut down on my lag... or is it a problem with my internet?