advice for ubuntu on a small machine

[Arthur H. Johnson II]

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.