UBuntu on older machines ?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Vincent Trouilliez">

> > > I've recently installed Ubuntu Warty on an old Pentium-MMX (200MHz)
> > > `noname` notebook. The distributions works fine and all basic hardware
> > > is supported: PCMCIA, PCMCIA Wi-Fi card, etc.
> 
> Ubuntu on a Pentium 200MMX ? Is that true ? Really really true ?!!
> 
> Does Gnome work ? Is it useable for basic things like e-mail and Epiphany

GNOME's performance issues are largely memory and disk related. It's not CPU
bound, so a slow machine won't hurt a lot, they just tend to have low memory
and slow disks. :-)

If you have 192-256MB RAM minimum, and reasonable disks (or use an NFS root)
you'll be fine.

- Jeff

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