Ubuntu Hoary Hardware Requirements?

postmast3r postmast3r at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 22:57:41 UTC 2005


On 6/7/05, Andreas Schildbach <andreas at schildbach.de> wrote:
> Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:15:09PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> >
> >>Would Hoary run adequately on an Intel Celeron clocked at about 700 MHz,
> >>equipped with 128 MB of RAM and using the i810 chipset?
> >
> > Depends on what you run on it. I mean, I've run Debian
> > servers on much crappier hardware than that -- quite busy
> > websites running Apache. For years I ran GNOME on a 400-MHz
> > Pentium 3. It worked fine.
> 
> My mother likes to only use Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.
> 
> I was asking because I tried the Live CD, and it was running
> ridiculously slow. It was taking more that 5 Minutes just to load Firefox.
> 
> Maybe this is because 128 MB is too low for the Live CD. Would would it
> be different for the real install?

Maybe it also could be because DMA is disabled by default on the Live
CD (for compatibility issues with some hardware that might actually
lockup if DMA is enabled on the CD drive, I think).




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