Kirk Wallace wrote: > Recently, I had a shortage of PC's around here and wanted to get a > LinuxCNC to work on whatever I could scrape together. I needed a > LinuxCNC PC to experiment with but it wasn't important enough to spend > any money on. In dusting off my retired PC's, it became clear that the > current Ubuntu or LinuxCNC won't run on less than 256MB of RAM and > really 512MB is the practical limit. At the time I retired my leftover > PC's, 256MB ran just fine with Windows 2K (before I knew better), or > EMC2 6, so there should still be a way of using this older hardware, > it's just a matter of working out the details. For situations were one > needs to make do, these resource challenged PC's can be handy and should > not be written off. > The 8.04 Ubuntu is less of a hog on system resources, you can install that image and then update to the latest LunixCNC version. The 6.04 Ubuntu is even less demanding, but is no longer supported for LinuxCNC updates.
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