Ibex on a PIII?

[Dexter Filmore]

Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2008 19:49:12 schrieb locke314:
> Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2008 11:45:21 schrieb Nigel Ridley:
> >> I've got this oldish PIII 650Mhz with 678 MB ram (3x256) -- will it run
> >> Intrepid Ibex OK (obviously without all the 'Desktop Effects')?
>
> hi all! I try to run Xubuntu Intrepid (installed to a HDD, with default
> settings) with 256 mb ram, but there was celeron 2GHz :) so, I have not
> noticed any problems :-D

Since it's the Kubuntu list I guess he attempts to install KDE on it. 
Well, what can one say - it will work, but rather sluggish. 
And I don't mean "depends on how much suffering you can take" sluggish, I mean 
Really Really Sluggish. 
I'd go for xfce as well... and not even for a Ubuntu base here, it's not 
really a performer.


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