HOW-TO: Giving up Ubuntu - a last word

[neil woolford]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 15:46 -0600, David Strauss wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 20:23 +0000, Michael Shergold wrote:

> > I had originally been trying to set up an elderly desktop for my daughter's 
> > home use and a respected younger friend had suggested that Linux would be 
> > an ideal method of breathing life into old 386 hardware.
> 
> Don't expect to run much of anything on a 386 (especially SX) system
> other than DOS, Windows 3.1 or an equally old flavor of Linux. Plus, the
> outcome doesn't justify the time. Pentium III computers aren't hard to
> find or expensive (and they run Ubuntu just fine).
> 
I'd agree.  I've tried Ubuntu (Hoary) on both PII and PIII systems;  PII
just didn't quite cut it, but PIII from about 500MHz and 80 to 128k of
memory starts to run fine.  (I'm talking general desktop and internet
use here - don't expect to use it for 3d rendering or live sound and
video editing!)

My (second hand, cheap) 500MHz PIII desktop even manages DVD playback -
though you can see the odd dropped frame on long smooth tracks and pans
sometimes.  It would probably be better if I had a more advanced DMA
type available, but the drive is a very old one...

Neil


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