Which Ubuntu?

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 01:26:06PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, dem 15.11.2022 um 19:45 +0000 schrieb Ian Bruntlett:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am working on some seriously old and slow laptops that have been
> > given to a charity I'm volunteering for. They have slow hard discs
> > and not that much memory (i.e. 1GiB upwards).
> > 
> > I'm looking for an Ubuntu variant that does not mind running on low-
> > end hardware. Any suggestions?
> 
> none of the current official ubuntu flavours will run on 1G RAM in any
> usable way (with luck xubuntu or lubuntu would bring up a desktop on
> that but starting an application like a browser will likely already be
> a hard hit) ... for such low end systems you might want to take a look
> at something like puppy linux:
> 
I run xubuntu quite happily on an Acer Aspire One bought in 2016 which
has 1Gb RAM, and an Atom processor.  It's not blindingly fast but it
runs Firefox OK.


-- 
Chris Green