Ubuntu on old PCs (was: Re: Oldest ubuntu user?)

[Ingo Lantschner (Lists)]

Shango Oluwa wrote:

> The organisation I work for has chosen UbuntuLinux because it installs
> so well on the wide range of older PC's that are donated to us  - these
> hosts then go into classrooms where children and young people of
> different nationalities learn languages, numeracy, music and ICT skills
> - all on Ubuntu!
We have some schools in Kinshasa, where we are running Redhat 9 
installed with Slinky from the Rule Project 
(http://www.rule-project.org). Now we are looking for an upgrade, and 
therefore I evaluated also Ubuntu.

I have the problem, thet on even PIII with 128 MB RAM Ubuntu is 
incredible slow. I already tried to replace Gnome with iceWM and xfce4 - 
its better bvut still too slow, since in kinshasa we have only PII with 
64 Mb RAM.

Did you succeed in installing it on such HW?!

TIA for any comments on this - Ingo.

(see also http://www.binonabiso.com/en/ or ../de/ for the German version)

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