Grannybuntu

Jeff Waugh jdub at perkypants.org
Tue Dec 19 20:27:54 GMT 2006


<quote who="Sridhar Dhanapalan">

> On Tuesday 19 December 2006 09:42, Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
> wrote:
> > Anyway, I have a couple of IBM Netstation thin clients floating around,
> > which I'm thinking might be turned into an Internet access box for her.
> > They're only P266 equivalents, but that should probably do.
> 
> I don't think Ubuntu would work well on that kind of hardware. You may
> wish to look at a minimalist distro like Puppy Linux.

Ubuntu runs fine on a P266... as long as you have 512MB RAM.

- Jeff

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