Re: Installing Ubuntu

NoOp wrote:
On 04/27/2009 05:36 PM, Sean or Mona wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 19:00
Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu


Your TOO poor to be owning a computer. Sell it and give up on Ubuntu.
That was the original motivator for trying to evaluate Linux - I can't
afford to upgrade Windoze.
Unfortunately, from what you say, if this is really that ancient, nobody
would buy it anyhow.
I see you're really sensitive about those of us on fixed incomes, permanent
disability.
Unfortunately, many others share your level of compassion, which doesn't
help ver much.



Karl enjoys sharing with others that he's 'rich' - ignore such comments.

Your system _will_ run with 256Mb, but it will be sluggish depending
upon the application & I'd recommend at least 384Mb. As I mentioned
previously, I have a laptop that is only 800Mhz/384Mb and it works just
fine for the most part.
I also converted a college student's system from Win98 to Ubuntu, and
she's still using it daily. The specs are:

*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Pentium III (Katmai)
vendor: Intel Corp.
size: 600MHz
*-memory
description: System memory
size: 255MiB
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT]
vendor: nVidia Corporation

It is even running a Mac Leopard lookalike desktop on it (she had a Mac
laptop that crapped out on her). I've offered to give her a 1Ghz/512Mb
system for free, but she says that it's running just fine and rather
wait until summer until school is out to make the change. I installed it
for her in June 2008 and the only call I've received from her for help
is when she needed to add a new HP printer that wasn't yet in the
printer database.

So, even with 256Mb, a 1.4Ghz system should perform reasonably well for
most applications. But I definitely would look into adding more memory
if you possibly can - memory pretty much makes the world go round these
days.
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My laptop is a 9 year old 800mhz PIII with 2*256mb PC133 modules.
Jaunty runs very well on it. I wouldn't tackle video editing on it,
but it does the job for pretty much everything else with quite
acceptable response times.
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