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
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
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
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
Ars Technica reports that the Windows tax is approximately $50:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.html
Here's another report with some fairly comparative systems:
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~ntuck/dellbuntu/
+ you get the added benefit
Julian Yap wrote:
Ars Technica reports that the Windows tax is approximately $50:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.html
Greater than $50, when you factor in the cost of something more than
Vista Home Basic. So, not bad.
+
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 my father (it had
