Re: messed up partition table reinstalling windows 98



On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 23:49 -0600, debiani386 wrote:
Some machines just cant handle linux, especially ubuntu. I recall back
earlier this month, i installed the oldest ubuntu i had (5.04) on a
friends laptop (233 mhz with 64mb ram and 8 gig hdd). It worked, but
it crawled.

This is not "some machines", this is "all machines with way less RAM
than stated in the requirements". Xubuntu might be a better choice, or
maybe you want to run not even Xfce, but a simpler window manager in
such cases. http://xwinman.org/


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