Ubuntu 5.10 minumum requirements

[David Hart]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 08:42:02PM -0600, cogyfarm wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> >Tom Hines wrote:
> >
> >Any live CD will run better in limited RAM if you can supply it with a
> >native HD swap partition to use. Try a Knoppix CD. If it works, you
> >should be able to run [K]Ubuntu. You can use the Knoppix CD to shrink
> >the doze partition to make some Linux swap space.
> >
> >What's less true is the minimum HD space requirement. Trying to fit any
> >modern Linux on less than about 4GB is simply a bad idea, even if you
> >ultimately succeed.
> > 
> >
> I would suggest you take a serious look at Engarde before you say a 
> modern linux can't/shouldn't run in a 4GB space!  Its simply erroneous!

He didn't say 'can't/shouldn't' he said 'bad idea'.  Although you can
fit a modern Linux with X and a lightweight window manager on less than
1GB it _would_ be a bad idea as a system to wean someone off of Windows
(which was what the original poster wanted).

If you want a usable system in that context I would say the previous
poster was spot on - 4GB is a minimum.

Engarde Linux is a server system without a desktop and completely
useless for that purpose.

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>