advice for ubuntu on a small machine

[Kjetil Halvorsen]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 14:58, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:

> >>> About 200 MB ram. Windows XP are running on those machines now, very
> >>> slowly.
> >>> We hope for something slim enough to be faster.
>
> xubuntu will run fine in 200MB, make it easy on your self.  The
> install is painless, and the GUI easy to learn.  Don't torture your
> end-users with something like WindowMaker...or emacs (!?!?)


The end-users are mathematicians and will do nice with emacs. Use of emacs
is
part of the specification.

Kjetil

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