<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Chris Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kristoff101@gmail.com">kristoff101@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>I have the following hardware<br>Sony Picturebook PCG-C1XD<br>Pentium II 400 MHz<br>128 MB Ram<br>10Gb HDD<br>USB floppy<br>PCMCIA CD Drive<br>Display adapter Neomagic Magicmedia 256AV</div> <div> </div> <div>Due to the amount of available Ram I wonder whether or not I should go with release 8.1 given the recommended config below, or go for an earlier version.</div> <div> </div> <div>I will be using the laptop to browse and possible use with skype.</div> <div> </div> <div>I understand that installing should be done using the alternative installer given the limited amount of memory.</div> <div> </div> <div>8.10, (Intrepid Ibex) - "Xubuntu can run with starting from 192 (or even just 128) MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended to have at least 256 MB RAM"<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thanks</div> <div>Chris</div><br></blockquote></div><br>128MB RAM is going to be very, very unpleasant. Especially Skype will be a problem (it uses Qt libraries as opposed to GTK like most of Xubuntu, which means that will all have to be loaded in memory additionally which won't help speed-wise). Perhaps if you just browse with a light-weight browser it might be bearable, but really not recommended.<br> <br>You might want to check out a lighter distro, perhaps to get at least a bit of a user-friendly experience you might go with a light-weight Xfce-distro such as Wolvix (<a href="http://wolvix.org/">http://wolvix.org/</a>), if not, something like Puppy Linux is probably the way to go.<br> <br>Or course, considering how it's all free-of-charge, you might as well just give it a try and see if you can bear it ;-)<br>An older version of Xubuntu is probably either nothing better or too old to be supported and thus _strongly_ recommended against.<br clear="all"> <br>Good luck,<br>-- <br>Vincent<br>