Bruce Byfield wrote: > It depends a lot on how you set things up. Use the Reiser filesystem, > and shut down a few extras like multiple workspaces, and a 500Mhz > processor with 128MB RAM runs Ubuntu fairly well. You'll notice that OOo > takes a long time to start, but, in general, performance is acceptable. >
Not that I want to make a big thing of it, but 128MB is not usable in my books. With X, Blackbox, OO2 and NOTHING else running, you're already *well* into virtual ram ... and that's when your performance goes from reasonable to pathetic. You want to have some chip ram available to play with. Also keep in mind the original poster was talking about putting this on a laptop ... and a CHEAP one at that. So the performance of the hard disk ( and hence virtual memory ) is going to be pretty damned horrible. -- Daniel Kasak IT Developer NUS Consulting Group Level 5, 77 Pacific Highway North Sydney, NSW, Australia 2060 T: (+61) 2 9922-7676 / F: (+61) 2 9922 7989 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.nusconsulting.com.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
