Ubuntu 5.10 minumum requirements

[Clint Tinsley]

The Live-CD is going to try to run everything in supporting the desktop and there is very likely some hardware issues with your sister's system, been there, seen that.  A Celeron 500 and 128 mb of ram is sufficient and will run Ubuntu quite well given compatible hardware.  There are other Live-CD distro's that might be more compatible with your sister's hardware.  Another approache and it would require installation, but you could install a base "server" type install to the hard drive and then using apt-get to add a desktop and applications but I suspect this is more than you want to bite into.  

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Fuller" <ultron33 at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 5.10 minumum requirements
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:16:51 +1300

> 
> Yes! Works Ok on my 128MB , 350mhz.
> 
> > Hello.  I tried to liberate my sister from Windows last weekend.  She
> > has an Intel Celeron 500 mhz, 128 mb ram.  To see if she had enough
> > horsepower, I tried to boot Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD., but it failed.  It
> > just took forever and I finally gave up.  I concluded that she didn't
> > have enough memory.
> >
> > The 5.10 release notes say that 128 mb is enough.  Is that true?  Does
> > Live CD require more than that?  I'm reluctant to install it until I
> > see Live CD running on it.  Is anybody running 5.10 with 128 mb ram?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Tom Hines
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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