Installing Ubuntu

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Sean or Mona <ugly at frightenstein.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 19:00
> Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu
>
>
>>     Your TOO poor to be owning a computer. Sell it and give up on Ubuntu.
>
> That was the original motivator for trying to evaluate Linux - I can't
> afford to upgrade Windoze.
> Unfortunately, from what you say, if this is really that ancient, nobody
> would buy it anyhow.
> I see you're really sensitive about those of us on fixed incomes, permanent
> disability.
> Unfortunately, many others share your level of compassion, which doesn't
> help ver much.
>

Providing you are not sharing RAM with an onboard video, it is
perfectly possible to run Ubuntu on a 256 Meg Ram PC. One of my first
installs, a couple of years ago, was done on a RAM this size. It will
have a sluggish performance since will use a lot of swap, but will
work. The alternate CD is recommended for such installation.

If you increase the RAM size just a bit, to 384 or 512, you'll end up
with a very usable system.

Talking about hardware and money, just for the record: at Feb 04 2009
Karl was still using an ancient, slow, outdated uni-processed 1.8 Ghz
Sempron. So, choices are not always a matter of money, sometimes
they're a matter of taste.

"Re: Frequency scaling survey

Here is my really slow AMD cpu:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'
model name    : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
1800000 1000000

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Karl"


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