Ubuntu 5.10 minumum requirements

[David]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 06:03:46PM -0500, Tom Hines wrote:
> 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?


I don't know why live CD failed, but I run Ubuntu on an assortment of 
machines from 350mhz/128mb upwards. I can't imagine your sister's machine 
has too little horsepower. Equally, the only hardware detection problem 
I've had so far was one winmodem.