Ubuntu on an older PC

[david]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:46 -0500, Brian Delaney wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 01:01 +0200, albi wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:52:37 -0500
> "BBBB" <ubuntulist at thingbuilder.com> wrote:
> 
> > I was thinking about putting Ubuntu on a PC and giving it to a friends Son. 
> > The PC would be  Pentium II 350 with 128M ram. 
> > Would this be a waste of time with a machine this slow?
> 
> I have several machines of exactly this spec running various flavours of
> Linux including Kbuntu and they run just fine, another one to look at on
> older spec machines is Vector Linux. If you are giving this PC to a
> newbie I would recommend a distro with KDE ( like Kbuntu ) as it is the
> most Windows like GUI. 
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
Vector Linux is excellent for older machines. It's fast, laden with
software and has some really nice desktops. Well worth a look.

nux