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i have one very slow notebook from year about 2000. On the computer is running icewm with firefox (in this times chromium for testing). My question is if it's good step to upgrade the system to Karmic Koala? I can't install another OS on that. It doesn't have CD-ROM, it can't boot from flash, or network.

The new wanted state is little bit faster system for browsing web and copying photos to local NAS.

I don't mention hardware configuration, becouse it's real speed is really deep below the paper parameters.

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a 9 year old laptop is hardly 'Ubuntu material'

try something 'leightweight', such as MacPup Opera or Foxy (based on Puppy) or DSL.

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I think if you're looking at the basics -- the kernel, X.org, etc -- an upgrade will be fine.

If you're talking about a full-blown GNOME/KDE desktop, upgrading won't help you and may be very detrimental.

If you're dependent on this system for anything important, it may be better to stick with Hardy LTS for a while longer.

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