Recommended specs for Gutsy

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- debian <debiani386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 11:15 +0000, chombee wrote:
> > Is there a recommended specification for a
> computer to run Ubuntu Gutsy
> > well, detailing the hardware you need to run it
> well? (Without needing
> > the new graphical effects).
> > 
> > I found this wiki page
> > 
> >
>
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
> > 
> > which has specs for Feisty. But here the
> recommended system requirements
> > are (to run a graphical version of ubuntu well):
> > 
> > * 500 MHz x86 processor
> > * 192 MB of system memory (RAM)
> > * 8 GB of disk space
> > * Graphics card capable of 1024x768 resolution 
> > * Sound card
> > * A network or Internet connection 
> > 
> > In my experience that is totally unrealistic.
> Certainly a standard
> > install of Ubuntu will not run well with less than
> 512MB RAM. I recently
> > setup a PC with a 1.7GHZ CPU and 512MB RAM and
> users complained that it
> > was too slow to use. I thought it was fine
> personally, but I wasn't the
> > one using it every day, and the same machine with
> 256MB RAM was
> > definitely unusably slow (i.e. you could make a
> cup of tea in the time
> > it takes Firefox to open, and don't even think
> about Open Office).
> 
> 
> well, ubuntu will run ion 192, but painfully slow, i
> recommend that you
> atleast have 512, or 1 gig just for the speed. 
> 
> btw, i notice that "trackerd" slows down my machine,
> so what i did was
> just disable it run loading at boot time. that
> decreased the time it
> took to boot ubuntu and the time it took to load
> other programs. 
> 
> hth
> --cj

Speed is relative to the eyes of the beholder but, I
have a windows machine, PII-350 MHtz with 384 MB ram
and WXP which runs so slow and locks up ofter. 
However, Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy on a PIII-450 MHtz with 384
MB ram runs faster, rarely locks up or freezes and
loads swiftfox or firefox rather quickly and even OOo
ain't that slow to load and works fine with writer and
spreadsheet loaded.  I have two relatively old
obsolete machines and my expectations of speed is
probably slow compared to yours.  I just hope when I
get a new AMD64 X2 6000+ machine with 19" or better
LCD monitor I'll really see some speed that will blow
my mind away or I'll be disappointed.
I haven't done much to speed up either machine just
removed quite and splash from grub and I don't seem to
have "trackerd" installed as neither aptitude show or
search picks it up.  YMMV.  My CRT monitor is running
at 1028x768 dpi using onboard memory.  Go figure.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net