Ubuntu on an older PC

[janne.jokitalo at dnainternet.net]

Quoting "Phillip Sc. Bøgh" <psb at ipl.dtu.dk>:

>>> The PC would be  Pentium II 350 with 128M ram.
>>> Would this be a waste of time with a machine this slow?
>>
>> If you are doing basic stuff like webbrowsing, wordprocessing and email,
>> then the old machine is fine. Why add to landfill?
> Completely aggree - this is truely environment thinking.
> But if you multitask do yourself the faivour to put in some extra Ram -
> just 64 or another 128 Mb does a different.

Hi all, 

I'd have to agree with Phillip here, I have an old PentiumII dual processor
desktop machin at home, and it handles the job quite well despite that the
processors are running at 266MHz. Granted, you can't expect lightning fast
reaction to anything, but as I got some 580MBs of RAM, I've yet to stumble upon
a task I couldn't do with that machine. I've even played SuperTux, the machine
has a Riva TNT graphics card with 16MB of memory, and it was very playable.
Honestly! :)

Compiling huge projects might take some time, but then again, what's the rush?
Some compiling I've done already, like rt2x00 drivers, Wesnoth etc. and I got no
extra gray hair.

You've got nothing to worry about, if you add a little extra RAM. It's cheap
these days, finding a 256MB stick should make you a very happy camper.


-- 
Jaska