advice for ubuntu on a small machine
Arthur H. Johnson II
arthur.johnson at gmail.com
Fri May 22 00:01:33 UTC 2009
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Sean Carolan 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 (!?!?)
>
Xubuntu will run fine. You will want to run Seamonkey or Epiphany instead
of Firefox however.
Alternatively you can install a cli (command line) only system, then just
install what you want. That way you can have xfce4 without all the extras
xubuntu installs. I have a blog at http://leanubuntu.blogspot.com which
is documenting my experiences on running Ubuntu on low end machines.
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