Lightweight Ubuntu for old laptops?

daniele favara danjele at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 10:49:15 GMT 2006


On 2/4/06, Fredrik Pettersson <pax at passagen.se> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm starting a project to bring used laptops from rich countries to
> democracy/building organizations and schools in developing countries,
> something I think is in line with the mission of Ubuntu linux. The best
> thing would of course be to use fre software on the machines, but these
> machines are old and can't handle the current releases of Ubuntu or
> Edubuntu. My question is: would it be possible to put together an
> Edubuntu variant that
>
> * can run on 64 MB RAM and less than 2 GB HD,
> * is user-friendly, i.e. has a window-based interface, and
> * comes with a word processor, spreadsheat and image handling
> software?
>
>   /Fredrik
>

meybe you can find something here :)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu
http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel



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