i've formatted my sony vaio which has PIII processor and 128MB RAM. so far the performance of ubuntu installed on it is quite ok. i allocated 1GB of the harddisk space for the swap, to help the RAM a little bit further.
On 4/14/05, Jan Alonzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kutch Villasor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > > Date: the 13th of April 2005 at 14:01 > > Just curious lang ha... > > > > What's special with Ubuntu (except ang pagiging bago)? > > I got Live CD here but I think simple lang na pagka > > distro, and I called it another distro of Linux.... > > > > It's an end-user targeted Debian distro (and heavily-patched as well), which > you can achieve the same with a highly customised Debian Sid. If you want the > "latest and greatest" of the FLOSS desktop world, then get Ubuntu (GNOME 2.10 > and Xorg is not even in Sid yet). > > > Guys guys please enlighten me as experience ninyo ano > > special sa ubuntu? > > I don't use Ubuntu but I've been reading a lot about it. > > > > Tsaka isang idiot na tanong kaya tumakbo ng Ubuntu sa > > P2 300MHz 512KB Cache 128 SDRAM? Gusto ko kc makinig > > ng comments nyo bago ko format etong classic na PC > > dito e > > It will run as long as you tell it not to install GNOME and the whole Project > Utopia stack (dbus, hald, etc...). I used to run GNOME (w/o nautilus), > firefox, emacs (gtk+), on a PIII 700MHz and 128MB RAM, and it really hits the > swap most of the time. > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers, > > ---- > Jan Alonzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > plug@lists.q-linux.com (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > > > -- Registered Linux User #383907 -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.q-linux.com (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
