Installing Ubuntu

[sdavmor]

Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>    Your TOO poor to be owning a computer. Sell it and give up on Ubuntu.
> 
> Karl: no such thing.  My first (pentium-based) PC was made from bits
> of trash(!) I found on the curb and ran Redhat (5?).  And just right
> this moment, I myself could not justify a spurious $50 expense -
> things are that tight, even though I would not consider myself "poor".
>  I'm well fed, have a roof over my head, and a broadband connection -
> makes me wealthier than a lot of people.
> 
> Although with 256 Mb of RAM, I'd be looking into using XFCE and
> installing in text mode.  DSL and Puppy linux might also be good
> options.   Or hang out at your local thrift store's dumpster(s) -
> Goodwill is known for pitching out computer equipment, and after a
> week or two you should be able to score some RAM, among other things
> (my wifi adapter - running dd-wrt - came from a Goodwill dumpster).
> 
> Chris

Concur.  With 256mb I'd install Xubuntu for its small footprint.
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