Ubuntu 5.10 minumum requirements

[cogyfarm]

David Hart wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 08:42:02PM -0600, cogyfarm wrote:
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>>Felix Miata wrote:
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>>>Tom Hines wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>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!
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>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).
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>If you want a usable system in that context I would say the previous
>poster was spot on - 4GB is a minimum.
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>Engarde Linux is a server system without a desktop and completely
>useless for that purpose.
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I'll give ya that, albeit Engarde does have its "webtool" which is 
completely adequate and 99% of the time means no CLI is needed.
Although I can't help but wonder how robust engarde would be with Xfce4
Troy