Re: Ubuntu on old machine
- From: NoOp <glgxg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:13:39 -0700
On 08/31/2008 08:44 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
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
Ubuntu installs just fine on a 256MB machine if you use the alternate
CD. That said, I think that trying to run on a 266Mhz machine with only
256MB is probably not worth the effort as you can pick up faster
machines out of the recycle bin.
[I admit to having a test 350mhz w/128Mb laptop that I do use for
testing on occassion. It has the full/standard Ubuntu 8.04.1 desktop
running on it; you just have to have patience when using it :-]
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