<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Bob .My name is John Papineau and I build Linux system and also have a Linux club in Nelson bc were people can get information about Unbuntu and open source software. Ubuntu minimum requirement for best performance To find out if the pc would preformed better if Ubuntu was installed on the computer your can take a old hard drive and install ubuntu on it . This will give you a good geest on how ubuntu will preform on this computer. In my experience I have found out that a computers installed with ubuntu 8.04 need at less 300 or better memory to work good on a computers . The cpu if Amd shod be at less 1ghz and the video card shod at less be a Agp that get get 16 bit color. Installing Ubuntu compare to run from cd. The deference of installing Ubuntu to running it from the cd or dvd can be a big deference.The deference can be attributed to the size of the cd or dvd that is loading the Ubuntu system.For example Ubuntu will load faster on a cd that is 50x then 24x. retrieving data if you want to retrieve the data on this hard drive and have a more powerfully computers you can buy a usb adapter cable that will attach to this hard drive and permit you to plug it in the usb socket so, that you can see the drive and get the data out. I hope that this will help you. have a great day from Nelson open source Bob Jonkman wrote: <blockquote cite="mid48A95D1A.14488.24DD80@bjonkman.sobac.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi all: Yesterday I was trying to fix someone's really old PC by removing Windows98 and installing Ubuntu (7.10). The PC dates from 1999, and holds a maximum of 128 MiBytes RAM. I tried installing more RAM, but the motherboard configuration switches max out at 128 MiBytes and additional RAM just isn't recognized. With Win98 still on the computer I tried to run the Live CDs Ubuntu 7.10 and Kubuntu 7.10 so that I could rescue all his documents by copying them to a thumb drive (Win98 doesn't support thumb drives without additional drivers). Unfortunately, both Ubuntu and Kubuntu were abysmally slow. It took at least 30 minutes to get through the booting and get to a file browser so that I could copy the files (which took less than a minute). Dragging a window couldn't be done in real time - it took over a minute for the window to appear at the new location, and in the meantime the mouse cursor was completely unresponsive. I also tried Knoppix 4.10 (a CD from 2005), and in comparison it was wonderfully snappy and responsive. I left Win98 on the computer, since I didn't want to risk such poor response with Ubuntu installed. Is it possible that Ubuntu would work much better once installed on the hard drive? If so, what might be causing the poor performance on the Live CD? Are Live CDs known to be much MUCH slower than installed? How come Knoppix was so much better? I'm sure everything would work better with more memory, but this PC hardware isn't capable of more than 128 MiBytes. --Bob. -- -- -- -- Bob Jonkman <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com"><bjonkman@sobac.com></a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sobac.com/sobac/">http://sobac.com/sobac/</a> SOBAC Microcomputer Services Voice: +1-519-669-0388 6 James Street, Elmira ON Canada N3B 1L5 Cel: +1-519-635-9413 Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>