Re: Ubuntu on old machine

Doug Pollard wrote:
The box is a E-machine 266 MHZ and 250 megabits of Random
access memory. It has a 4o gig and 60 gig hard drives. It will boot
from cd. Will Ubuntu 8.04 install and run on such a machine? Would
I be better off to try something like Xubuntu or Puppy Linux.

If you mean 256 MBytes instead of 250 Mbit (which would be <32MB) Xubuntu
8.04 would work just fine. I don't think Ubuntu 8.04 can be installed on
a 256MB machine. And as you plan to use it for a single application it
shouldn't matter which desktop you have.


Nils

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