Ubuntu 5.10 minumum requirements

[Felix Miata]

David Hart wrote:
 
> 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.

Sorry I sent before making this meaning of "modern Linux" as clear as
Hart. In the context of windoze convert, I actually go farther, always
choosing KDE as the least different from what such people are used to.
It has pretty much everything they're used to except the need for
anti-trojan/virus/adware overhead and that miserable anti-standards
Outhouse and/or Outbreak Excess for automatically screwing up email with
top posting and HTML.

My last install went onto a 4G /, Kubuntu, followed by apt-get install
edubuntu-desktop. The result left about 40% freespace on /. Much less
freespace than that and reduced filesystem efficiency can start making
the system feel more sluggish than necessary, hence my recommended
minimum size. Days earlier I tried essentially the same thing several
times different ways according to the recommended minimum, and never got
a complete install in even 2.25G, much less any expectation of
filesystem efficiency.
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