Re: [LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving

2007-05-26 Thread Peter Besenbruch
Peter Besenbruch wrote: The base Dell laptop comes with 512 meg. of RAM, good to go for Ubuntu, that's for sure. My daughter's school laptop has been going strong for two years. Jim Thompson wrote: 512MB may be enough, but 256MB is not. I just loaded xubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 2600 for my

Re: [LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving

2007-05-26 Thread Dave Kiwerski
Jim Thompson wrote: Peter Besenbruch wrote: The base Dell laptop comes with 512 meg. of RAM, good to go for Ubuntu, that's for sure. My daughter's school laptop has been going strong for two years. 512MB may be enough, but 256MB is not. I just loaded xubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 2600 for

Re: [LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving

2007-05-26 Thread pnakashi
On Friday, May 25, 2007, at 05:55 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: I just loaded xubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 2600 for my father (it had belonged to my step mother.) It has 256MB and a 1GHz p3. Neither Ubuntu or kubuntu would successfully install on it. The alternate installer should work. We've

Re: [LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving

2007-05-26 Thread Jim Thompson
Peter Besenbruch wrote: Peter Besenbruch wrote: The base Dell laptop comes with 512 meg. of RAM, good to go for Ubuntu, that's for sure. My daughter's school laptop has been going strong for two years. Jim Thompson wrote: 512MB may be enough, but 256MB is not. I just loaded xubuntu on a

Re: [LUAU] Project Indiana: Binary distro of OpenSolaris is coming...

2007-05-26 Thread Jim Thompson
Julian Yap wrote: http://blogs.sun.com/aland/entry/svosug_project_indiana_get_the Ian Murdock, Chief Operating Platform Strategist for Sun Microsystems, will be talking about and explaining Project Indiana. Project Indiana is a binary distribution of OpenSolaris which Ian plans to work on in an