Ubuntu on old machine
David Vincent
dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Mon Sep 1 13:14:52 UTC 2008
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Nils Kassube wrote:
> Neil wrote:
>> I do not know wether EMC is able to run from terminal, but if it can
>> it might help to kill the gui with the command: "init 3" I belive it
>> is (not sure).
>
> No, it isn't. Unless you have a special configuration, there is no
> difference between runlevels 2, 3, 4, 5 on a *Ubuntu machine. If you
> don't want to use a GUI, it might be better to not install a GUI in the
> first place. Just install the Ubuntu server version which by default has
> no GUI.
Ubuntu Server is great for older dedicated machines! I built a
wireless-bridge using an old PII-350 and 64mb of RAM. After booting the
entire system uses just 16-22mb of RAM to run.
- -d
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