Ubuntu on old machine

[Nils Kassube]

Doug Pollard wrote:
>     The box is a  E-machine  266 MHZ   and 250  megabits of Random
> access memory. It has a 4o gig and 60 gig hard drives.  It will boot
> from cd.   Will Ubuntu 8.04  install and run on such a machine?  Would
> I be better off to try something like Xubuntu or Puppy Linux.

If you mean 256 MBytes instead of 250 Mbit (which would be <32MB) Xubuntu  
8.04 would work just fine. I don't think Ubuntu 8.04 can be installed on 
a 256MB machine. And as you plan to use it for a single application it 
shouldn't matter which desktop you have.


Nils