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

[Karl Goetz]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 13:47 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 1. He was not able to find any documentation of the minimum requirements
Its printed on the cd covers, but it seems its not easy to find online...
> 
> 2. Isn't it a bug that the installer fails to check available space?
probably :)
kk
> 
> Lee
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Karl Goetz
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