[wellylug] Installing Ubuntu on older PC

Mark Foster blakjak at blakjak.net
Mon Jun 23 16:57:52 NZST 2008



On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, John Durham wrote:

> Rob Collins wrote:
>> John Durham wrote:
>>> Rob Collins wrote:
>>>
>>>> John Durham wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, but I'm in Upper Hutt. Could arrange a trip if required.
>>>>>
>>>> Not too sure how keen you are on the Gnome based Ubuntu but if you're
>>>> keen on a lower resource demanding system while still getting the
>>>> benefits of the Ubuntu base, you might want to try Xubuntu which has
>>>> the Ubuntu base system but uses the much lower demand Xfce desktop .
>>>> . . http://www.xubuntu.org/
>>>>
>>> If I understand you correctly, this is a GUI with low resource usage?
>>> If so, that would be interesting.
>>>
>> I'm no linux wiz but that's about the sum and total of it.  Xubuntu team
>> also try and make low resource hungry productivity applications the
>> defaults too, where practical.  I once had Xubuntu Dapper Drake running
>> on a 15yr old laptop no problems.  Remember though Xfce is not to
>> everybody's taste as it behaves in slightly different manner to Gnome so
>> might be good idea to try live before installing.
> Thanks for the caution. In this case it probably won't matter much. The
> owner couldn't do anything with it and decided to give it away. That
> leaves me with a test machine now that the hardware goes.


I am in Upper Hutt and can hook you up with Ubuntu Hardy (8.04).  I dare 
say it would run fine on a 1.6Ghz system - the more ram the better, 
though.

I also have Xubuntu 7.10 - one version old but Xubuntu is good on low-spec 
systems. I found it quite usable on my P3-1Ghz boxes with 512Mb Ram.

Mark.




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