Ubuntu in the News: Test of distributions for an old laptop

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 08:55:41PM +0200, Christian Jensen wrote:
> Armed with a 800 megahertz Celeron, 10 gigabyte hard drive and 128 
> megabytes of RAM, Fedora Core, Gentoo, (K)Ubuntu and OpenSUSE and 
> VectorLinux are being tested.
> 
> http://www.linuxforums.org/desktop/a_linux_distribution_for_an_old_laptop.html
> 
> "Kubuntu / Ubuntu: 3/10 points
> http://www.ubuntu.com
> Advantages: One of the easiest install routines.
> Disadvantages: Fairly sizable footprint (2 gigabytes PLUS user space). 
> Very few options for installation to minimize footprint. I was not able 
> to get this installed successfully on my laptop."

He was unable to install it because he created a partition which was
(slightly) smaller than the minimum requirements, then gave up when it ran
out of space.

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 - mdz