Ubuntu netbook Remix - installable on older hardware

[Brian McKee]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:45 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/26/2009 06:23 AM, Brian McKee wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:
>>> Is it possible to install UNR onto a portable? I like the interface and find it
>>> specially adapted for my daughter who is not reaaly that much interested in
>>> discovering a DE as gnome or kde or xfce.
>>
>> Sure - have at it!  It's not really anything more than a special
>> window/desktop manager and a somewhat restricted set of original
>> software.
> I seem to be missing the original post, but it might be advisable to see
> if the portable meets the specs:
>
> http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/unr
>  Minimum hardware requirements:
>
>    * Processor: Intel® Atom™ processor
>    * RAM: 512 MB
>    * Storage: 4 GB Flash disk (SSD) or hard disk

That page is I believe referring to their OEM program, which targets
those devices.
If you continue on down the page you'll see a link to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UNR
which does state you can simply add the packages to any 8.04/8.10 install.
I had it running on an old Celeron box with 256meg of ram IIRC.

Brian