Re: Recommended specs for Gutsy


--- debian <debiani386@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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

Speed is relative to the eyes of the beholder but, I
have a windows machine, PII-350 MHtz with 384 MB ram
and WXP which runs so slow and locks up ofter.
However, Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy on a PIII-450 MHtz with 384
MB ram runs faster, rarely locks up or freezes and
loads swiftfox or firefox rather quickly and even OOo
ain't that slow to load and works fine with writer and
spread*** loaded. I have two relatively old
obsolete machines and my expectations of speed is
probably slow compared to yours. I just hope when I
get a new AMD64 X2 6000+ machine with 19" or better
LCD monitor I'll really see some speed that will blow
my mind away or I'll be disappointed.
I haven't done much to speed up either machine just
removed quite and splash from grub and I don't seem to
have "trackerd" installed as neither aptitude show or
search picks it up. YMMV. My CRT monitor is running
at 1028x768 dpi using onboard memory. Go figure.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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