On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:10:23 +0200 Julien Lavergne <gi...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Le Monday 04 July 2011 à 18:48 -0400, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a > écrit : > > Question to the devs: do you think that maybe one day the > > optimizations could make a nice and usable system (say "Lubuntu") > > running with the requeriments that Win98 did? I'm talking about less > > that 150Mhz and less than 50Mb Ram... > > For the 50 Mb of RAM, maybe not "out-of-the-box", but maybe in the > futur, when it will be easier to disable more services, and with some > optimizations. And of course, if nothing from the outside add more > weight :) But for now, we are just trying to maintain the actual > situation :) > > For the 150 MHz, difficult to say, it's really ... slow and old :) I had > this type of computer when I was a kid :) > I only had a 1.25MHz CPU and 768 bytes of RAM in my computer as a kid. :) I would say a 300MHz CPU and 128 KiB of RAM is a more realistic lower limit, i.e. machines from earlier this century. For machines from the previous century I would suggest looking at TinyCore [1], or something like FreeDOS [2] and GEM [3]. [1] http://www.tinycorelinux.com [2] http://www.freedos.org/ [3] http://www.deltasoft.com/ -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
