Re: Recommended specs for Gutsy


On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 11:15 +0000, chombee wrote:
Is there a recommended specification for a computer to run Ubuntu Gutsy
well, detailing the hardware you need to run it well? (Without needing
the new graphical effects).

I found this wiki page

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements

which has specs for Feisty. But here the recommended system requirements
are (to run a graphical version of ubuntu well):

* 500 MHz x86 processor
* 192 MB of system memory (RAM)
* 8 GB of disk space
* Graphics card capable of 1024x768 resolution
* Sound card
* A network or Internet connection

In my experience that is totally unrealistic. Certainly a standard
install of Ubuntu will not run well with less than 512MB RAM. I recently
setup a PC with a 1.7GHZ CPU and 512MB RAM and users complained that it
was too slow to use. I thought it was fine personally, but I wasn't the
one using it every day, and the same machine with 256MB RAM was
definitely unusably slow (i.e. you could make a cup of tea in the time
it takes Firefox to open, and don't even think about Open Office).


well, ubuntu will run ion 192, but painfully slow, i recommend that you
atleast have 512, or 1 gig just for the speed.

btw, i notice that "trackerd" slows down my machine, so what i did was
just disable it run loading at boot time. that decreased the time it
took to boot ubuntu and the time it took to load other programs.

hth
--cj


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